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Google Wave Launches Extensions to Crank Up Software Development

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As far as I am aware, Google Wave still lacks the promised ability to embed Waves into web sites. What is the point of collaborating with people, if the results can not be published? Even though there is an API, and open source, Wave is effectively a walled garden. Sure, the rest of the web can be brought into Wave, but Wave can't be brought out to the rest of the web.

Just about every use I have for Wave depends on this one thing. The ability to publish, share, and embed waves outside of wave.google.com. If they actually added it, I'd probably be using Wave like crazy. Without it, no matter what other functionality they have, I have no use for Wave other than as a curiosity.

You can embed it now: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/guide.html

During my monthly check-in to Wave, I was greeted with a message asking me if I want to receive notifications of updates to waves by email.

Wasn't Wave supposed to be email for the 21st century? Getting emails about updated waves is like being notified you've received a voicemail by FedEx.

The future being distributed unequally, for a time Wave will benefit from being compatible with email from the 20th.

The best way to use wave is to get the chrome plugin -- it tells you when waves that you are on are modified.

Until I start getting reasonable workflow through it, it's onerous having to check it repeatedly, and so the emails are great to make it so I don't basically have two email accounts to check.

The email notifications especially helpful for those who are slow otherwise to respond who I otherwise just had to email to get them to take action.

Nice, but as far as I'm concerned Google Wave still delivers quite a poor/terrible user experience. It's slow, crashes occasionally and navigating around large waves is fairly tortuous. I still think that Wave needs more work to improve its general usability before it's ready for prime time.

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