To think, it was about
this time last year that Google first unveiled its collaboration tool
Wave, and today the company's taking out the invitational step and opening it to the public at large -- which begs the question, did anyone not have an invite that wanted one at this point? It'll also be now available in the enterprise-centric Apps suite for no extra charge. On the developer side of things, expect some more open source code be unleashed, including most importantly the rich text editor. Can't say we've really dug around in the service ourselves since its beta launched, but co-creator Lars Rasmussen tells us we should be giving it another go. He further acknowledged that they've got some work to do on educating users on the best ways to use the service, which at this point seems to be mid- and small-scale collaboration. To that end, expect some new tutorial videos, and with any luck, some amusing animation.
posted May 19th 2010 12:00PM
google waves dis-integration with gmail has made it the suck from the beginning so i tried it once and found it completely useless and never tried it again. lol.
They didn't kill wave? Well, looks like the Dr. still has a job.
What Google needs to do is to create a Wave-to-Email Gateway. People like me who would love to use Google Wave simply cannot because 99% of the other people are still sending emails. If you make something that is "email if it was invented today", then make it backward compatible.
I don't know if its Google not wanting to take on a massive userbase, but you know...with Gmail, they are already storing all messages for everyone. Combining email and wave will spur adoption and remove redundancies. Users can choose whichever interface they like.
@nashix
they had an appbot thing that did it
well, i say did it, it didnt work, but it was *supposed* to :P
but yeah, give me that and id use it almost daily
afterall, its one of the few email related sites not blocked by my college :P
Why the heck is engadget not live blogging the google io? ? ?
wave is actually more a partially laggy tech demo to me than anything else.
i still don't get the buzz with wave....
i think i'm never gonna get it....