Google sticks Wave in a box, puts a bow on top

Google Wave is not going away—it's going in a box. The Wave team plans to flesh out the open source code it has already released and turn it into "Wave in a Box" so that developers can run Wave servers on their own hardware.

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[beeblebrox]

It's just a Wave in a Box!

 

[Deleted member 129457]

"Wave in a Box"

Sounds pornographic. Way to go Google!

 

[NaraVara]

Step 1.) Cut a hole in a box.

 

[DCstewieG]

This is actually better for me...I'd like to use it at work where putting data in the cloud would be problematic. Definitely looking forward to this! Hope it's as easy as it sounds.

 

[SirOmega]

That's exactly what I want. I want to run wave on my own hardware, behind my firewall, as a means to collaborate and communicate internally on projects within the company. Good thinking Google!

 

[BigDXLT]

That's exactly what I want. I want to run wave on my own hardware, behind my firewall, as a means to collaborate and communicate internally on projects within the company. Good thinking Google!

+1

 

[Rory_O]

Google's Wave: If you put it in a box, is it standing or collapsed?

 

[Pirokobo]

1. Invent something new.
2. Try using it to create traffic for advertising.
3. Fail.
4. Give it to the open source community to rework.

 

[Melinate]

1. Invent something new.
2. Try using it to create traffic for advertising.
3. Fail.
4. Give it to the open source community to rework.

5. Take all the credit after the open source community fixes it.

TFTFY

 

[OutcastedNomad]

5) then harvest that what you have sown.

Edit beaten to it by melinate.

 

[MoonShark]

7 posts before we got a physics joke, and no QM jokes yet? C'mon people...

I'm wondering how much potential this box has, and how long it will take for Wave to tunnel out

 

[brianparker]

Nice. I'll definitely give it a go. Set up needs to be easy getting going quickly but then, well, we'll see.

 

[ChrmnMa0]

I thought it was more like a particle personally.

 

[papadage]

I tried to use Wave but wound up using SharePoint Workspace and Groove instead since it's baked into Office 2010.I wasn't thrilled with the ability to edit historic comments, and discussion in Groove work better for my company for ongoing conversations. It also didn't help that Wave was slow as molasses even on our fastest systems.

 

[stummies]

Wish is granted, looking forward to this.

 

[adminfoo]

Ah. It's only mostly dead!

Seriously though, if this means I can realistically host my own Wave app on a major host provider and have some sort of universal login (OpenID or equivalent), then I guess I won't grumble too much.

 

[uninventiveheart]

Not surprised, but not interested. Good that developers will get to the source code finally, but I think it'll be more interesting to see what comes of this, rather than the Wave code itself.

 

[Baeocystin]

This has great potential. Although I never found Wave usefully personally, the people I know who *did* use it were all on smallish teams at work, using it to collaborate.

 

[DeadSuperHero]

Oh my god. Now it can be integrated into Diaspora, StatusNet, GNU Social, and XMPP.

BRILLIANT!

 

[OmniThought]

"Wave in a Box"

Sounds pornographic. Way to go Google!

Hmm..

On Topic:

This is a great idea from Google for giving Wave longevity. The open source community will most likely find some use for it, possibly make it a more practical program and, if it gains enough popularity as such, Google will attempt to gain it back.

 

[Aurich]

Step 1.) Cut a hole in a box.

Done.

 

[davidcwilliams]

Google's Wave: If you put it in a box, is it standing or collapsed?

I believe Wave is both standing and collapsed, irrespective of whether the box is opened.

 

[Joel_B]

This is a great decision, and it means we will be deploying it internally...!

 

[Drakewolf]

Oh my god. Now it can be integrated into Diaspora, StatusNet, GNU Social, and XMPP.

BRILLIANT!

I too leapt to this conclusion. Not just brilliant but frikin awesome.

 

[MoonShark]

Step 1.) Cut a hole in a box.

Done.

Hahaha. Who is that in there, the guy from the video here? I probably would've gone with Dr. Wave

 

[bjartur]

Oh my god. Now it can be integrated into Diaspora, StatusNet, GNU Social, and XMPP.

Considering that Diaspora was designed to integrate multiple different "social sites" together and that the Wave (federal?) protocol is an extension of XMPP, how will this change the current situation?

I hadn't heard of GNU Social before, though, cheching it out.

 

[Drazick]

They just should keep Google Wave.
Give it more time!

 

[SeanJW]

Schrödinger's Wave?

Certainly in a box, and both dead and alive...

 

[erikengh]

I do not get the negativity about Wave. I think it was a great concept. The main problem is the network effect. It isn't fully usable until a lot of people is already on it. Not sure what these speed problems people talk about where. I used it over regular home network connection and found no problems getting text sent in realtime over the internet e.g. Worked faster than in Google Docs which never seemed satisfactory fast to me.

I think wave will be a great replacement for wiki's and forums internally at companies. I can also imagine things like Stackoverlfow, wikipedia, facebook could be better with Wave as a foundation instead.

Never ended up using it much myself becaue nobody else was on it, but I am interested in pushing this at our company as a replacement for wiki. Anybody else think it has good potential as a wiki replacement? I mean is there really anything wiki does better?

 

[zjt]

FTA: "This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today."

I fear that all they are releasing is their implementation of XMPP and the other open technologies behind wave. It looks like they are not planning to release their slick interface. All they say is "including a server and web client".

The lack of openness of the UI was really a problem for wave all along. Only Google (and other big players) are capable of investing in development of an interface like that. But the user experience is what makes wave different than other technologies, and the UI is critical to that experience. If only one vendor controls, and isn't sharing, the critical factor for a technology, then how can the technology succeed?