Alas, Google wave is no more. I knew it well.
Or.. rather. I knew the api’s well. All the cool technology behind it – I knew that. The google wave team tackled some tough issues to get it up and running. Google wave included an implementaion of Operational transforms for largescale realtime collaboration. The google wave api was also pretty nifty.
Now – when thinking about it , I remember email conversations about google wave – facebook conversations about google wave. Real life conversations about wave. Hackathons about wave. I never actually did anything useful in wave itself. All the fun memories I have about google wave is basically learning about new technologies and meeting new people. There is nothing bad in hacking on interesting tech – during this process I learned about google app engine, cloud computing, python, protocol design and some longhaired math – all these things are usefull to me in the long run.
It looks like that some of the technologies of google wave will live on in other google products. One of the main features – realtime collaboration in documents is now available in google docs.