Google Wave Wipes Out
We have become so enamored with apps. Need to calculate a tip? There’s an app for that. Need to take some notes? There’s an app for that. The iPhone and Android platforms boast zillions of apps…taken together might form a complete solution for something. We’ve broken down every tiny task into a separate app. The tip app could just be a button on a calculator. The notes app seems to be one function of any text editor. Which brings me to the app called, “Google Wave.”
Google Wave, as an app, is dead. This is a good thing, because Wave isn’t really an app; it’s a communication widget that could be an additional feature in many larger applications. In fact, I seem to recall several applications that were including support for Google Wave.
Even though Wave, the app, is dead, I hope that it will continue on as an embeddable feature. I used it several times for project collaboration and it definitely improved communication. The biggest hurdle was getting people to return to it. We had a couple of good runs, but there just wasn’t enough in Wave to keep us coming back. That’s simply because Wave shouldn’t have to stand on its own.
The technology is useful. Since it is an open source product, I can only hope it follows its natural path and becomes a standard feature within other applications.
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