Google waves embedded

I can't help but think that Google Wave missed out. They were no where close to being ready when they released it. Some of the no-brainer features like deleting waves and removing someone from a wave is just being introduced in the last few months. The speed was always an issue, but it only improved in the last few months. And the UI, while beautiful, is not intuitive (three panels as opposed to two panels in gmail?).

The whole concept is great, but their delivery failed. I am sure there always will be niche users who love wave and use it often but doubt it will ever have anywhere close to wide adoption like email.

I will be the dissenting opinion here. Wait a year, and I think that Wave will be mostly complete (but not necessarily out of beta :-) and generally useful. Being able to embed Waves for discusion lists, etc. on plain old web sites and have Google provide the persistence on their servers may be a 'killer feature' of Wave.

I was at a friend's house for brunch today and mentioned the embedded Wave feature to another non-technical friend who has a very plain web site - this would be perfect for people like him: no change required in using cheap hosting.

Wave is also yet another platform for developers of web services (via Wave Robots), and I think that this will be another 'killer feature.'

I don't get the scrollbars. How exactly is this better than the regular scrollbars? I've seen it mentioned in many discussions but never actually got to experience it first-hand.

The page fails gratuitously in Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) saying that I need Chrome, Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5...

Perhaps buzz will become embeddable and replace wave for things like this.