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0 pointsaspenmayer2y ago0 comments

I like your ideas here, and for some reason your comments remind me of the vision of Google Wave, which was much hyped but suffered in my opinion from its lack of usage. It also had a weird interaction model which wasn’t quite public or private, sort of like the issues Google+ had with Circles. I’m reminded of the poor UI/UX and design/ergonomics of playing Nintendo games online with Friend Codes.

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danjl2y ago· 1 in thread

I remember the hype around Google Wave, but I never personally had the opportunity to try it out. I recall seeing some screenshots that looked a bit like Google groups but with more icons. I did use Google Circles and Google+. Sounds like a fun bit of weekend research.

aspenmayerOP2y ago

I think parts of Wave were incorporated into Google+, now discontinued (running theme with Google products unfortunately), as well as incorporated in some collaboration/feedback/commenting features of Google Docs, iirc.

Please reply back if you find anything interesting about Wave, it was pretty interesting at the time.

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