Wave embodied the inherent value of cloud computing.
It was a tool developed with the ambitious aim of catalysing a shift from channels to platforms.
Channels such as email are inefficient, slow and reward scarcity.
Platforms prosper in abundance and provide an environment of collaboration and productivity.
It was a tool developed with the ambitious aim of catalysing a shift from channels to platforms.
Channels such as email are inefficient, slow and reward scarcity.
Platforms prosper in abundance and provide an environment of collaboration and productivity.
It is easy to comment with hind sight, but it would seem that Google's decision to release Wave in a consumer social networking space was a mistake. Wave had its greatest potential in Enterprise. As it is open source I hope that we will see it re-born. Maybe as a BPM tool?
The lesson learnt in its axing is that if enterprise expect to get real value out of cloud computing, they will need to take process and organisation change seriously.
Full blog post on the official Google Blog
when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser....
we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication.
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Despite the wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.
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