Wave was an amazing product and set of technologies. It was a release and marketing failure. Should have been in the Google incubator at least another 6 months

Wave was an amazing product and set of technologies. It was a release and marketing failure. Should have been in the Google incubator at least another 6 months before Alpha/Beta, and shouldn't have made the huge mistake of releasing a product to users with limited invites when the entire purpose is collaboration. And that's what the focus of its marketing should have been: collaboration. Group chat, forums, and wikis, here's your replacement. Planning a trip or party? Use Wave instead of Gmail. That's all it needed. Geeks want to hear about the cool technology in it, everyone else just wants to know what the hell am I going to use this for.