Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Google isn’t giving up on Wave, why should they? Firstly the product was worth everything, secondly if it is to be killed, it will be a definite waste of immense amount of code, expertise and a possibility of strangling one of the biggest open source projects. Google feels exactly the same which is why it is looking forward to keep it alive. In some manner.

Google Wave as we know of now will see a makeover and will be introduced as a more complete application, which would put both the Wave Server and the Web client in a box. The details have already been shared on the Wave Developer blog and some features of the project include:

• an application bundle including a server and web client supporting real-time collaboration using the same structured conversations as the Google Wave system
• a fast and fully-featured wave panel in the web client with complete support for threaded conversations
• refinements to the client-server protocols
• gadget, robot and data API support
• support for importing wave data from wave.google.com

Of course this wont be the full fledge Wave you witnessed when it was released but it is a promising step, one that developers can build upon their own Wave running on their own equipment.

I think Wave is going to return soon and that Google has taken the right step with it, something it should have done at the start of the project. The idea to roll out Wave as a communication tool for all was just not smart enough, given people are looking faster and more simpler ways to communicate not things as complex as Google Wave [initially]. Google Wave should have been released as an enterprise communication application or tool with all powers given to developers to twist and turn the code as per their need. Once that had been done, Wave would have been a simpler idea to grasp for many. That’s just my opinion but I am sure this one’s going to make a strong comeback till then it will lurk around as a zombie.

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