I am sad about this news, I think this is an error by google to stop wave.
I think they did not give it an opportunity at the level of the revolution it brings.
sure the people were not widely welcoming but because they were not seeing things that could impact them and usable in a simple maner. Yes it is complex for people but it could be overcome, like Steve overcame the BS complexity of smartphones produced by MS.
but instead of stopping it they should have fostered the development of applications professional ones and other user friendly ones for every day people.
I still have an idea to use wave professionnally but I don’t know where to express it.
so I will do it here :
The idea is sharing trouble shooting of network incidents among technical people and for others less technical people, I think it could be used by Cisco (or their competitors) to provide a service for their customer.
context :
when there is a major network incident generally people at cisco set up a call conference open to technical people and above all to managers to exchange on the situation and ideas for decisions (changing hardware, rebooting etc.).
Meanwhile there is a Network Engineer from Cisco or from the service provider connecting to the network, one equipment after another to find the reason for the incident and trying to settle it for a while or definitely.
several poeple can log on different routers by it is not easy for them to exchange between each other and see what the others have found.
At the same time may be a chat between network engineer take place to exchange by text
idea :
The idea would be to have a bot in a wave that would copy all that is entered by the network engineer and replied by the router on a copy of the terminal screen in a wave (or blip or wavelet) so that several technical people (in the same wave) could share what other are doing or observing on their terminal.
an image of what is going on, on the terminal screen of one, or up to several technical personn’screen could be displayed in the wave and shared to other people (SP managers, Cisco technical people)
a chat could be shared among technical people
and may be even the call conf could be hosted in a wave.
to share information about what is going on in the trouble shooting session and exchange by audio at the same time as seeing what is going on the technical troubleshooters’screens.
wave could do that great, it could help a lot !
appart from the terminal copy (it could be a bot or an app to developp), every thing is already there in wave(chat, audio conf etc.), just needing the integrating glue, it could bring a lot to the team work of trouble shooting.
I have had this idea for a while but who to express it to ?
to cisco here in France (where I live) but most of the tools come from the USA ?
should I have expressed it to google ?
May be that the difficult part of google wave, it is a collaboration tool and people have to collaborate to make the most of its potential, “it takes two to tango”, and the two parts that would benefit may be, are not ready to collaborate at the same time ? one is willing and the other is not ready yet ?
a bit like Telephony over IP the requested people from telepony to work with people from IT ?
I think wave is revolutionnary, I hope it will be used (one day soon) at the level of what it can ultimatly bring to people !
via smarterware.org