Comments on: Waving Buh-Bye to the Wave: One POV Regarding the End of Google Wave http://www.clearverve.com/2010/08/09/waving-buh-bye-to-the-wave-one-pov-regarding-the-end-of-google-wave/ Promise Marketing Blog Thu, 17 May 2012 02:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim http://www.clearverve.com/2010/08/09/waving-buh-bye-to-the-wave-one-pov-regarding-the-end-of-google-wave/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Tim Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:40:31 +0000 http://www.clearverve.com/?p=702#comment-75 I was the biggest Google Wave skeptic there was, until I saw an actual demo from Google Wave engineers and was able to ask them questions. Once I figured out a PURPOSE for Wave, it was an incredibly valuable tool. But only in the context of group projects. I used it for my @MarquetteMBA study group (with people who have never even heard of it before we started) and without Wave, there's no way the SaveTeecycle.org fundraiser would have been able to come together. I think people just didn't know what to DO with Wave, and they got frustrated when it didn't act like Facebook or Twitter. It didn't help that it was really buggy in the beginning, too. So people abandoned it, and missed out on potential to use it as a tool for work. I think it was actually ahead of their time. I'm sure Google Wave will always be a punchline like Friendster, but soon enough someone else will come along (Facebook?) with a tool that's very similar. I was the biggest Google Wave skeptic there was, until I saw an actual demo from Google Wave engineers and was able to ask them questions. Once I figured out a PURPOSE for Wave, it was an incredibly valuable tool. But only in the context of group projects. I used it for my @MarquetteMBA study group (with people who have never even heard of it before we started) and without Wave, there’s no way the SaveTeecycle.org fundraiser would have been able to come together.

I think people just didn’t know what to DO with Wave, and they got frustrated when it didn’t act like Facebook or Twitter. It didn’t help that it was really buggy in the beginning, too. So people abandoned it, and missed out on potential to use it as a tool for work.

I think it was actually ahead of their time. I’m sure Google Wave will always be a punchline like Friendster, but soon enough someone else will come along (Facebook?) with a tool that’s very similar.

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