From the Google Wave Developer Blog today:

“Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we’d like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months.

We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we’ve already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and web client into a more complete application or ‘Wave in a Box.’

This project will include:

* an application bundle including a server and web client supporting real-time collaboration using the same structured conversations as the Google Wave system
* a fast and fully-featured wave panel in the web client with complete support for threaded conversations
* a persistent wave store and search implementation for the server (building on contributed patches to implement a MongoDB store)
* refinements to the client-server protocols
* gadget, robot and data API support
* support for importing wave data from wave.google.com
* the ability to federate across other Wave in a Box instances, with some additional configuration

This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today. However, we intend to give developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware.

Since the beginning, it has been our vision that the Google Wave protocols could support a new generation of communication and collaboration tools. The response from the developer community to date has been amazing and rewarding. Even more so now, we believe that developers and other projects are a critical part of this story.

While Wave in a Box will be a functional application, the future of Wave will be defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve. We’ll discuss more technical details of our plan on the Wave Protocol Forum, which is the best place to keep up with the latest progress on the open source project and learn how you can contribute. “

Source: Google Wave Developer Blog.

Novell to plow new-age Wave minus Google

Novell has committed to keep surfing Google’s Wave despite the search giant stopping development of its new-age collaboration tool.

The Linux vendor has said it’ll keep building Novell Pulse, its implementation of Wave built using Google’s APIs and protocols, as it can turn Wave into a successful technology.

The full article can be read here at the Register.

Google Wave: why we didn’t use it
By Ars Staff

With Google pulling the plug on the development of Wave, its meant-to-be-revolutionary communications protocol, Ars staffers pondered Wave’s collapse. The ideas in Wave were undeniably cool, the vision was ambitious, and Google backed it. So why did no one use it?

Read the full list of comments from the editors here.

“But despite these 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.” — Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/26/why-google-wave-sucks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Robert Scoble put it this way: “This service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity.”

http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/01/google-wave-crashes-on-beach-of-overhype/

“If you’re an early, unimpressed, or confused, Google Wave user, this will help you out.

Gina Trapani and Adam Pash, of Lifehacker fame, have written a book, “The Complete Guide To Google Wave.” It’s just eight short chapters, and it’s available online”

http://www.businessinsider.com/confused-about-google-wave-now-theres-a-book-to-explain-it-2009-11

“After searching some public ‘waves,’ we came across an educational wave. Entitled ‘Wave in Class,’ this wave was started by Loren Baum (a self-described “collaborative learning enthusiast” and graduate student at Ben Gurion University) and Sam Boland (a Politics student and “Tech Enthusiast” at Occidental College, Los Angeles).

The wave was started to explore concepts like “Collaborative Note Taking” and “Wave as a Debate Host.” Nearly 100 people are included in the wave, ranging from teachers to PhD students to IT professionals to high school students.”

Conclusion

“Overall, it is clear that Google Wave has potential to be very useful in the education system, particularly as a real-time collaborative note-taking tool. Three students experimented with just that in a lecture; the resulting notes were said to be “more complete” than if Wave hadn’t been used.”

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_wave_use_cases_education.php

What problems does Google Wave solve?
A matter of perspective

“There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media.

Is Wave the next Twitter? Nope. Is it the next Facebook? Nope. Is it going to replace Instant Messengers? Possibly, in some circumstances, but not any time soon.

I believe this is partly Google’s fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. But Wave is not a geek/hacker tool, or a social media tool, it’s a corporate tool that solves work problems (more on that later). On the other hand, they never claimed it would be a Facebook replacement or a Twitter killer. Google calls wave an “online tool for real-time communication and collaboration”. The way Google should have advertised Wave is: “it solves the problems with email”.

At Woobius, we’ve been working at resolving the problems with email for some time. Woobius is a solution to some of the problems of email within the construction industry. We’ve blogged and given talks about it. Perhaps that’s why it was immediately obvious to me and my team why Google Wave is awesome.

What’s the problem with email, anyway?”

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html

Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication

by MG Siegler on October 12, 2009

“We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet of a desire to shift the way we communicate once again.”

More at:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/google-wave-and-the-dawn-of-passive-aggressive-communication/

A week using Google Wave: the early verdict
Google’s new IM and email hybrid is all about the platform
By Dan Grabham

Google Wave is only in a Preview version at the moment

“We’ve spent seven days using Google’s new great hope for online communication – Google Wave. But even after a couple of days attempting to use it, one question was prominent in our mind – what exactly is Google Wave for?”

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/a-week-using-google-wave-the-early-verdict-642324?src=rss&attr=all