15 Facts About Google Wave

Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online.

Google Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media, such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.

Google Wave released most of the source code as free software, allowing the public to develop its features through extensions.

Google Wave worked like previous messaging systems such as email and Usenet, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages, or requiring all responses to be stored in each user's inbox for context, message documents that contain complete threads of multimedia messages were perpetually stored on a central server.

Google Wave initially received positive press coverage for its design and potential uses.

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In retrospect, the lack of success of Google Wave was attributed among other things to its complicated user interface resulting from a product that merged features of email, instant messengers and wikis but ultimately failed to do anything significantly better than the existing solutions.

Chris Dawson of online technology magazine Zdnet discussed inconsistencies in the reasoning of Google in deciding to end support for Wave, mentioning its "deep involvement" in developing social media networks, to which many of Wave's capabilities are ideally suited.

Google Wave was accepted by the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator program under the project name Apache Wave.

In 2016, several discussions took place within the Apache Google Wave community, aiming to tackle the stagnation and crisis state of the project.

The Apache Software Foundation mentor of Apache Google Wave, Upayavira, was concerned on the project stagnation, but framed SwellRT as Google Wave's potential savior.

Google Wave is extensible through an application programming interface .

Over 150 Google Wave extensions have been developed either in the form of Gadgets or Robots.

Google Wave provides federation using an extension of Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, the free Wave Federation Protocol.

Google Wave was re-engineered into a backend-as-a-service solution by the SwellRT project.

Google Wave has been adopted in different forms for corporate applications by Novell for Novell Pulse, or by SAP for Cloudave, and community projects such as PyOfGoogle Wave or Kune.