Google never said that Wave was being shut down at the end of the year. -- Nathanael Abbotts
Email: [email protected] Wave: [email protected] Twitter: @natabbotts (http://twitter.com/natabbotts) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 19:02, chojrak <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I've not found any better place to write, so I'm trying here. > > In short: aren't there any chances that Google Wave could remain > living zombie the same way Google Notebook is? Notebook is also > stagnant, abandoned, but wasn't killed (which is good for all faithful > users like me). You say that Wave haven't attracted as many users as > expected, but it doesn't mean it attracted no-one! > > For a long time I also haven't found the use for it. Last month it > changed. One of my coworker, which is responsible for very > sophisticated project (implementing large scale Warehouse Management > System with production and 3rd party logistics and integrating with > ERP, for the curious) for several sites, came to me for help. > > As he shown me, his duties involve amazing number of sophisticated > tasks, all of which are discussed for a few days mostly by email, and > consist mostly of reply to reply to a previous reply to a forwarded > message in a group of people. That creates stunning number of messages > and knowledge. Coordinating these is impossible. People often respond > to obsolete messages, because email doesn't have enough context > available (I mean in a very long message there are chances somebody > just put a sentence in the place nobody will notice). Typical long- > living message is a colorful mess of random sentences. Same for groups > and spreadsheets. Lack of proper tool makes people invent new > attachments and put even more facts there. Thus there are problems > arranging things. Knowledge is scattered and there's no single place > that would contain everything. Decisions are often made based on > outdated or partial information. > > So we looked for alternatives (Google based) and tried documents, > spreadsheets and groups. But NONE OF THEM worked. Our problem was > simply out of their domain. Only product that worked was Google Wave. > It has the ability to comment on comment on comment on each chosen > sentence, by just right-clicking, without risk of losing context, > allowing quickly locate required contents. If the issue gets too long, > one click can extract it to a new wave, which then grows by itself. IT > REALLY WORKS! We tested it and it's PERFECT! Not to mention polls and > other useful tools! > > Then we've read that Google is most probably pulling the plug next > year. That's sad. Wouldn't it work if you kept Wave running but not > supported, just like Notebook? > > What is the problem with Wave alternatives? They are simply not as > good as Wave! > > Our last hope is you, Dear Google. > > Thanks for your patience. > chojrak > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
