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.