The current default wave mode is "private", i.e. whenever a new wave is created, it can be accessed only by the owner and then by participants added by owner. I think that this concept is not something that is obvious. It seems to me that it evolved this way since originally, Wave was created as email replacement. However, as we see, Wave is a lot more. It is a platform for collaboration, and as such it should embrace its users to share the content, not to hide it. Off course, if someone wants to create private wave, or change the default settings - it should be supported. The official reason for Google Wave development discontinuation was "lack of traction". I think the main reason for this - there's was very little public content. Because in Google Wave everything is private/limited until stated otherwise. Why not change it? Why not make everything public until stated otherwise? It may be a small change that makes a lot of difference. For example, I guess everybody knows the Flckr service. The company allowed users to upload images to its servers and share it. It wasn't the only one at the time, however it was the first to make the images public by default and it resulted in huge success.
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