Google Wave

Buzz - Brian Sullivan

Somehow it feels like more. Probably will be more before the work is done. - Brian Sullivan

"We wanted to let you know that we will keep wave.google.com running past December 31, 2010 until a suitable replacement to host all your waves is available." -- a Delicious moment from Google? - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet

Or a Wave moment from Yahoo. Apparently Wave is not being shut down as previously announced. - Brian Sullivan

FF should have something similar... :) - ovigia

Maybe but I can't think of a single thread that I would like to preserve should FF go down the toilet. Wave on the other hand I have two or three that I will probably preserve just in case I need them over the next few months (and then they too can be trashed). I think all this "I own my data and need to preserve it for all time" hysteria about social media is just rhetoric. It has a very short shelf life. - Brian Sullivan

Brian i would like to backup at least what i've posted....its easier to find here than in my bookmarks ;) - ovigia

"Recently we’ve learned two interesting things Google-related.  One, Google Wave is dead.  And two, Google is working on a comprehensive social networking platform, supposedly to be called Google.Me, to compete with Facebook.  Let’s think about this a moment." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"I think Wave is an interesting application that could have become a useful tool, had it not become the latest Google project to fall off the wall due to an complete lack of post-launch support. I’m not a fan Google’s “throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks” approach to application deployment. I’d also venture that the success rate of apps launched that way is about the same as my success rate in getting Disqus to accurately compute Reactions to my blog posts. Low, really low." - Kol Tregaskes

"Google must know that approach doesn’t really work, given the complete opposite approach it took with Google Buzz. Google bolted Buzz onto Gmail accounts, guaranteeing a large user base, even if portions of that use base don’t know anything about Buzz. I think the fact that Google launched Buzz in this aggressive manner is very telling. It tells me that Google really wanted Buzz to... more... - Kol Tregaskes

Pissing into the wind I am afraid. - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet

"With rumors of Google Me flying about, and Google Buzz still not having entirely recovered from some early misguided press and unclear utility in a social world dominated by Facebook and Twitter, it is logical to wonder, for some, if the Mountain View owned aggregation and sharing site will follow Wave to an early end. I would not be so fast to reach this conclusion, even if Google hasn't done as solid a job in marking product milestones the way they have finally determined how to make big splash launch announcements. The product, as best as I can tell, sees regular updates, with more features in the queue, and has a good, if not overwhelming, level of use from casual to devoted participants. And it seems very logical that even if Google doubles down with a new product like "Me", as rumored, that Buzz would play a major part in its development - as would the company's expanded Google Profiles." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"Google Wave, a product once heralded by many as a massively disruptive communication tool (heck, invites were even selling for $70 on eBay), is no more. In a blog post this afternoon, Google says they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code for it will remain available as open source. The move isn’t much of a surprise; adoption never seemed to materialize for Google Wave — even after it dropped its invite-only status — as users struggled to find meaningful use cases for the service (though we found a few). What’s most interesting about Wave, perhaps, is the spectacular rate of its rise and fall. It was easily one of the most hyped products of 2009, but within months of its launch, the buzz had almost completely disappeared." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

*wave* - imabonehead

"The new feature allows users to add a bookmarklet to their browser that will create a new Wave from any web page, embedding a link inside the Wave so that other users can discuss it. If the page contains a video or image, that will be embedded as well — in a playable format, in the case of videos — so that users can check it out before discussing it. And Google has also provided web designers with an easy way to add “Wave This” buttons to their pages, and/or to produce clickable URLs that will generate a new Wave discussion." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

First wave shared with the new bookmarklet: https://wave.google.com/wave... - Kol Tregaskes

"Last month we wrote a short post about using Google Wave for live blogging. Today, during Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook privacy press conference, we decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the event with Wave. The reaction to our experiment was overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to share how we it up for our live blogging session today." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"Google just announced the general launch of Google Wave at its annual developer conference in San Francisco. Until today, Wave was an invite-only service, but starting now, anybody with a Google account will be able to log in to Wave and use it without any restrictions. Google will also enable Wave for Google Apps users today. In order to educate these new users, the Google Wave team has also created a number of new videos and case studies that highlight how organizations can use Wave to collaborate more effectively." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Kol -- I will have to see if I can figure it out when I am logged out -- I think based on other information there is a login box and a button to that allows you to setup a Google account (never realized that existed as I have always used my Gmail account and am permanently logged in). - Brian Sullivan

"Do you remember Google Wave? After a lot of hype around the initial launch of Wave - which some pundits billed as an "email killer" at the time - things have been rather quiet around the service. The latest update to Wave, however, could push the service back into the public eye. Publishers can now easily embed waves on their sites and readers can see them without having to be logged in to Wave, which makes Wave a great live blogging platform." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Yeah mentioned this yesterday: http://ff.im/jd1np - Kol Tregaskes

Strangely enough I am thinking of all the social style sites out there Wave may be the only one with legs -- a bold prediction -- but I think Wave or its ancestor will be around a lot longer than FriendFeed, Twitter or Facebook. (actually I meant descendant not ancestor) - Brian Sullivan

i still have 18 wave invites. no one wants them - Mike Nencetti

And those decrements coincided with extra email invites sent to the original invitee - I find out from later communication with them. So I sent one, two more got sent by the ghost of Google Wave past over the next 24 hours. Weird as Chris said. - Brian Sullivan

So I am thinking this will be integrated into Wave in the not too distant future. - Brian Sullivan from Bookmarklet