Back in 2009/10, we ran our startup primarily on Wave for several months. Several of us found it very useful; I thought it was a promising combination of email, Google Docs, and chat. On the other hand, the usability was horrible and it was ridiculously buggy; several people hated it with a passion.
I can see why Google gave up on it but it's disappointing that they haven't incorporated these ideas into other products. And it doesn't seem like Apache Wave ever gained enough momentum to move forward.
What other projects are looking at similar chat/email/collaborative editing hybrids?
I think Google did incorporate a lot of this functionality into Docs - multiple users editing the same doc at once is pretty close to the functionality I wanted from Wave, and I've used it multiple times to great effect.
Agreed that the collaborative editing from Docs is great, but I believe Docs already had that functionality before Wave.
The kinds of things I was thinking of is that there aren't any "subsections" in docs (comparable to Wave's replies); and Docs still isn't a "container" in the way that Wave was -- you can't embed a poll, for example.
I can see why Google gave up on it but it's disappointing that they haven't incorporated these ideas into other products. And it doesn't seem like Apache Wave ever gained enough momentum to move forward.
What other projects are looking at similar chat/email/collaborative editing hybrids?