The End of the Wave 
Last autumn Google Wave (http://wave.google.com) started the preview-phase. Due to a coworker I got an invitation. While I was waiting for it (back then it took about 24 hours 'till an invitation arrived!), I watched the Google youtube Video of the presentation from the Google I/O.
Already back then I was stunned! But it became even better when I could finally use it.
I found a few great ways to use it. The first big project I did in Wave was developing a database for school. It was a group-work we had to do last Christmas. A friend of mine and I spent almost all the time over Christmas developing it. We were very motivated and Google Wave supported our work just perfectly. We also found a bot that did some syntax highlighting. That was especially useful for the SQL-statements.
From this point, we started using it for all IT-subjects at school. We solved different tasks, took notes and prepared a lecture by using Wave.
I also found Wave to be a great tool for collecting and organizing knowledge.
Another time I was using it was at a course some months ago. We were 14 people in the course and ind the end all using Google Wave. We used it to take notes of what the teacher told collaboratively.
For all that stuff Google Wave was working great. I could not really use it at work, because I'm working for a big company and we can't just put our data up to any service
. But we did some tests at work too.
Google Wave changed the way I think about communication and collaboration completely! I can't understand why I can't do live collaborating in OO.org Writer (or M$ Word) and I miss the possibility to respond to a specific point in an sms.
I was totally convinced that The wave-protocoll and Google Wave itselv would replace most of our todays communication possibilities. First mailinglists (as Google Wave is much more flexible). But also sms, the whole instant messaging thing (not that the clients would disappear, but that they would all start using Wave federation protocol).
I thought it would come when Google would integrate Wave to gmail, when other providers would offer their own Wave services or when there would be a server for companies that would support active directory/ OpenLDAP. I also imagined wordprocessing tools with the live-typing thing (what we now got in Google Docs. But that's missing the great commenting and mostly the discussion features of Wave).
In my opinion it was THE future of the IT industry.
You can imagine how disappointed I was when I read that the development of Google Wave would be stopped.
It was like a hit for me. I was like shocked. They were even showing it at I/O 2010 and they were very positive. There are several projects going on that are integrating the wave protocol (Novell Pulse, SAP Streamwork). And now it should be stopped.
Whenever I think about it (even almost a week l8r, I'm getting very sad and have to do something to cheer me up (may sound ridiculous to people that are not that nerdy, but it's true).
Not only that this made me very sad, it also brings several problems. We will now need another tool for school and the collection of our knowledge about SSDs.
But what can we do now?
First of all: Wave will live on. Googles servers will be shut down at the end of the year. But there is the Wave federation Server FedOne, that you can install by yourself. The whole protocoll is open and the development can go on.
And there are petitions to convince Google to not stop the development. So: go and sign them!
http://www.savegooglewave.com/
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/save_the_wave
Last autumn Google Wave (http://wave.google.com) started the preview-phase. Due to a coworker I got an invitation. While I was waiting for it (back then it took about 24 hours 'till an invitation arrived!), I watched the Google youtube Video of the presentation from the Google I/O.
Already back then I was stunned! But it became even better when I could finally use it.
I found a few great ways to use it. The first big project I did in Wave was developing a database for school. It was a group-work we had to do last Christmas. A friend of mine and I spent almost all the time over Christmas developing it. We were very motivated and Google Wave supported our work just perfectly. We also found a bot that did some syntax highlighting. That was especially useful for the SQL-statements.
From this point, we started using it for all IT-subjects at school. We solved different tasks, took notes and prepared a lecture by using Wave.
I also found Wave to be a great tool for collecting and organizing knowledge.
Another time I was using it was at a course some months ago. We were 14 people in the course and ind the end all using Google Wave. We used it to take notes of what the teacher told collaboratively.
For all that stuff Google Wave was working great. I could not really use it at work, because I'm working for a big company and we can't just put our data up to any service
. But we did some tests at work too.
Google Wave changed the way I think about communication and collaboration completely! I can't understand why I can't do live collaborating in OO.org Writer (or M$ Word) and I miss the possibility to respond to a specific point in an sms.
I was totally convinced that The wave-protocoll and Google Wave itselv would replace most of our todays communication possibilities. First mailinglists (as Google Wave is much more flexible). But also sms, the whole instant messaging thing (not that the clients would disappear, but that they would all start using Wave federation protocol).
I thought it would come when Google would integrate Wave to gmail, when other providers would offer their own Wave services or when there would be a server for companies that would support active directory/ OpenLDAP. I also imagined wordprocessing tools with the live-typing thing (what we now got in Google Docs. But that's missing the great commenting and mostly the discussion features of Wave).
In my opinion it was THE future of the IT industry.
You can imagine how disappointed I was when I read that the development of Google Wave would be stopped.
It was like a hit for me. I was like shocked. They were even showing it at I/O 2010 and they were very positive. There are several projects going on that are integrating the wave protocol (Novell Pulse, SAP Streamwork). And now it should be stopped.
Whenever I think about it (even almost a week l8r, I'm getting very sad and have to do something to cheer me up (may sound ridiculous to people that are not that nerdy, but it's true).
Not only that this made me very sad, it also brings several problems. We will now need another tool for school and the collection of our knowledge about SSDs.
But what can we do now?
First of all: Wave will live on. Googles servers will be shut down at the end of the year. But there is the Wave federation Server FedOne, that you can install by yourself. The whole protocoll is open and the development can go on.
And there are petitions to convince Google to not stop the development. So: go and sign them!
http://www.savegooglewave.com/
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/save_the_wave
exning:
Never heard of it, but ill check it out 
bashvi:
@Exning: Tell me if U do so. I'll login for a chat. Also you might want to hurry as it will only be up for one more month