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Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation
MMacFadden writes "The Google Wave team has officially submitted the open source version of Wave to the Apache Software Foundation as a candidate Incubator project. Google hopes that the wave technology will continue to grow, supported by the new open source community (which is made up of Google and non-Google employees alike). Here is the proposal itself."
Read the linked article, they go into the details. "Unfortunately, Google did a poor job of clarifying the potential of Wave or helping users understand how to embrace and utilize it. The initial excitement gave way to confusion, followed by apathy, and eventually to Google deciding to kill the project--at least as far as Google hosting and supporting it is concerned."
Maybe I need to RTFA, but I just went to http://google.com/wave and it worked fine. I know it's no longer developed, but it still exists
If you can't convince them, convict them.
It's going to be shut off in about 2 months, and they reassigned the entire team to other projects and the creator left to go to facebook, who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.
Where have you been?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
Do you have a link to the youtube video?
Here you go:
http://tinyurl.com/yjuygc3
Google is overwhelmed with bug reports.
Go to their support group forums for developers where the actual employees read.
Well there are certainly a number of smaller and bigger organisations still looking into Wave. Novell is using Wave based tech for Pulse (no federation as yet but you never know) and at the summit we had a number of people keen to ensure that wave survives so they can build on it and make money.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/01/lars-rasmussen-why-i-quit_n_776807.html
http://gizmodo.com/5690405/facebook-email
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/rasmussen-facebook-google/
http://www.google.com/
The protocols themselves are open and yes it allows distributed servers. Wave In A Box, the reference implementation is one such project and there are a small number of us who are running testing versions of this server.
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Part of the incubator project is WAIB (Wave in a Box) - which you can download now off the main Wave Protocol website (www.waveprotocol.org) which allows you to run your own Wave Server - including a supplied web interface. The Wave protocol includes federation so you can link up WAIB.