I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?).
The whole concept is great, but their delivery failed. I am sure there always will be niche users who love wave and use it often but doubt it will ever have anywhere close to wide adoption like email.
I'm no sure it was properly launched yet, you still need an invite (although anyone whose interested already got in) and it has a 'preview' sticker, if they would tweak the UX and somehow integrate it with docs or something it could be a valuable addition, the potential is still there.
A Google Wave enabled sidebar for group editing Google documents would be great. The prevalence of "widescreen" format for monitors actually makes this more comfortable.
Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.
To be fair, I think the performance of that page has something to do with the embed API, and the face that it was trying to load multiple copies of wave.
I will be the dissenting opinion here. Wait a year, and I think that Wave will be mostly complete (but not necessarily out of beta :-) and generally useful. Being able to embed Waves for discusion lists, etc. on plain old web sites and have Google provide the persistence on their servers may be a 'killer feature' of Wave.
I was at a friend's house for brunch today and mentioned the embedded Wave feature to another non-technical friend who has a very plain web site - this would be perfect for people like him: no change required in using cheap hosting.
Wave is also yet another platform for developers of web services (via Wave Robots), and I think that this will be another 'killer feature.'
I don't get the scrollbars. How exactly is this better than the regular scrollbars? I've seen it mentioned in many discussions but never actually got to experience it first-hand.
13 comments
[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 55.7 ms ] threadThe whole concept is great, but their delivery failed. I am sure there always will be niche users who love wave and use it often but doubt it will ever have anywhere close to wide adoption like email.
Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.
The actual wave client performs pretty well now.
I was at a friend's house for brunch today and mentioned the embedded Wave feature to another non-technical friend who has a very plain web site - this would be perfect for people like him: no change required in using cheap hosting.
Wave is also yet another platform for developers of web services (via Wave Robots), and I think that this will be another 'killer feature.'