A couple of days ago, Google announced they will no longer be supporting Google Wave. I wanted to write a short article expressing my disappointment at this discussion:

I was one of the first fortunate individuals to secure an invitation to use Google Wave, and the immediate problem I found was that no one else I knew had an invitation, so this obviously limited my use of the applications. As time went by I eventually found a couple of individuals that also had access, and we began testing the functionality of Wave.

We soon discovered Wave was a very useful tool for managing virtual projects in real-time. Once of the most disappointing features of Wave was that it wasn’t integrated into Gmail and ran independently. In effect Wave was a completely separate and independent piece of software that would have benefited from an integration, which would have opened it up to for more users.

I am sure Gmail would look and function very differently if Wave had been integrated, and because of this I believe this is why Google never mashed the two together. It’s a shame because there was no reason why there could not have been an option to integrate or run the two apart. Google did it with Buzz, so I don’t really understand the reasons why.

Either way, its a disappointment to me that Wave will no longer be supported by Google.

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I’ve had Google Wave for a couple of months now and not really had the opportunity to use it much purely because I don’t know anyone who actually interested in using it with me. I still have a number of invitations available and would be happy to share them with anyone who would like to collaborate in trying out Wave. If you are interested them please use the comment section below, or contact me via the ‘contact us‘ page, e-mail me here or send me a tweet and I’ll be happy to send you an invitation.