Wave is such a bold and innovative concept, it deserves to be saved. I hope Google realizes:
1. Wave has not yet reached the maturity status to get the traction from users that they expect. Given some more time and community participation, it will become a killer service. 2. Wave is an idea ahead of its time. It is unfair to expect it to compete with other social network and gaming platforms kind of efforts. It is certainly not in the same category as Buzz, Twitter or Facebook. So to say that "...but Buzz is there" is not fair. Its real value is in a providing a new way of collaboration and returns will most likely come from enterprise applications. 3. Wave could be Google's real contribution as compared to some initiatives of "me too" kind that it has launched recently. Innovations like Wave can only succeed with support of a visionary company, like Google. I hope they have not surrendered completely to the agenda of the suits and still have the resolve to pursue great ideas. I would suggest the following options to Google, in the order of desirability: 1. Continue along the existing road map 2. Scale down Wave investments, with fewer people actively working on it 3. Share all Wave related code, including the production server, with the community under an open source license. Let some of the existing Wave engineers steward the open source effort. I think we should petition Google to rethink its fate. Regards, Hemant *Hemant Shah M.D., M. Surg.* Senior Research Informatician *Henry Ford Health System* <http://henryford.com/>1 Ford Place <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Ford+Place%2CDetroit%2CMI+48202%2CUnited+States&hl=en>Detroit, MI 48202 United States [image: Call me on Google Voice!] <http://proteme.org/googlevoice.html> *LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/proteme> Email: [email protected]* *Websites: Proteus <http://proteme.org/> Proteus Open Source Project <http://kenai.com/projects/pip/>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" 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/google-wave-api?hl=en.
