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I was one of the few people outside google who was actually excited about Google Wave. We used it as an internal communicatoin tool within the company with grea

I was one of the few people outside google who was actually excited about Google Wave. We used it as an internal communicatoin tool within the company with great suceess. Looking at popularity of Slack, MS Teams, Zulip, etc., one could not think that Google Wave came out too early.

WorldMaker 5y ago
Or Wave came out slightly too late. As the last Google "product" designed with open standards in mind (if not great at it in practice) the writing was already on the Google+ wall that Google was done with open standards in server applications, especially those still relying on XMPP and XMPP federation (as Wave was). (I still believe this also killed Google Reader; RSS/Atom and OPML were too open to survive the walled gardening.) Wave probably would have had much more time to figure out its place in the world if it arrived closer to the original GTalk/GReader launches than closer to their shutdowns.