http://simonwillison.net/2010-12-28T16:34:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-12-28T16:34:00+00:002010-12-28T16:34:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Dec/28/why-did-google-wave/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-Wave-fail-to-get-significant-user-adoption/answer/Simon-Willison">Why did Google Wave fail to get significant user adoption?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>When Wave first launched, individual Waves didn't have a URL. This made it impossible to link to them from outside of Wave - people were having to say "log in to Wave, then search for X". If you can't link to something on the internet, it may as well not exist.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-wave">google-wave</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2009-12-06T09:08:43+00:002009-12-06T09:08:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/6/etherpad/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced">EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced</a></strong></p> Fantastic news. EtherPad just got acquired by Google and announced the team would be joining the Google Wave effort and the existing service would be shut down. Lots of people complained, so they’re going to keep it alive until they’ve open sourced the code! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/etherpad">etherpad</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-wave">google-wave</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a></p>

2009-09-23T09:59:08+00:002009-09-23T09:59:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/23/wave/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.googlewavedev.blogspot.com/"><p>In the past, the Google Wave team has spent countless hours solely on improving the experience of running Google Wave in Internet Explorer. We could continue in this fashion, but using Google Chrome Frame instead lets us invest all that engineering time in more features for all our users, without leaving Internet Explorer users behind.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.googlewavedev.blogspot.com/">Lars Rasmussen and Adam Schuck</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adam-schuck">adam-schuck</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chrome">chrome</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chromeframe">chromeframe</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-wave">google-wave</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lars-rasmussen">lars-rasmussen</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wave">wave</a></p>