Google Wave Being Developed Into a Fully Functional Application
Google Wave Being Developed Into a Fully Functional Application
Posted 09/05/2010 at 9:56am
| by Justin Kerr
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Google Wave may not have lasted long as an official web app, but the search giant announced today that it intends to use the existing code to design a fully functional application that can be hosted by anyone who wants it. The service will lose its integration with Gmail, but will still give active Wave participants a place to use and modify new and existing Wave’s after the service shuts down at the end of the year.
In many ways Wave might stand a better chance of reaching its full potential as a community open source project than as a neglected Google product. At the very least it takes the sting away from those who used the service extensively before they found out it was being given the axe.
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Keith E. Whisman
September 05, 2010 at 1:00pm
Google Wave, what's that? I've never heard of it before now. Doh! Perhaps that's the reason why it's dead, Google didn't even try to push advertising out about it.
Tenhawk
September 05, 2010 at 4:51pm
The biggest problem was the slow rollout, I think. Wave enjoyed a period of intense interest at the start, but for those of us who got an invite it quickly became an exercise in frustration as we have no one to communicate with.
By the time they had enough invites out and about, it was old news. They should have continued to tease it and waited for a larger roll out when it was integrated with Gmail. I think that the seperate package is the best alternative, and I'll be hosting a server on my site as soon as it's available. I look forward to what the open source community will do with it.
Keith E. Whisman
September 05, 2010 at 4:57pm
I took a look at Wave and it looks a lot like BlackBoard my college uses for online work. If it's faster and more reliable than Blackboard then perhaps it should be considered by higher education organizations as an option as opposed to Blackboard. Blackboard just doesn't look and feel like anything current and up to date but Wave sure looks a lot more polished.
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