Wave goodbye

Sheer brilliance was not enough, it is curtains for Wave. Bits and bobs are likely to appear in Google products but the whole notion of Wave as the next generation, game changing product is not going to be realised.

For us Wave proved itself quickly; it was easy to produce a WYSWYG interface for MediaWiki. This generated a lot of interest in many places, it had us generate a lot of air miles and we had something to show and tell.

For us there were a few issues that were not resolved to our satisfaction. Our aim was to provide a WYSWYG interface for MediaWiki and this meant that our complete solution had to be open source. This took just too long, there were understandable reasons but it killed interest in the Wikimedia Foundation. As the Wave interface was to be used for Wikipedia, it was just not acceptable that there was no way to internationalise and localise Wave and its extensions.

I am sad that it is over, here is finally a video with Erik Schmidt talking about the demise of Wave..The sound quality is poor..



Thanks,
      GerardM

Promissing prototype..

On the Wave page of "Featured prototypes", there is also room for a few promissing prototypes.. We are really pleased that our MediaWiki-Wave software has made the grade.

Thanks,

GerardM

A nice article on Wave

I read two interesting articles about Wave..

• What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way
• Why will the Google Wave succeed, in spite itself?

I find it interesting that people argue that Wave will fail. For me Wave provides a lot of technology that fits in with my dream of a vastly more usable Wikipedia. The best part is that the technology has many more applications.

The one question I do not have an answer to yet, the question that can be a deal breaker is: what about the internationalisation and localisation. The perfect answer is: what about it, this is how you do it!
Thanks,
       GerardM