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Google Wave Gadgets Get Second Life As Google Shared Spaces

12:00AM December 21, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

One of the neatest features in the discontinued-but-alive Google Wave was its collection of gadgets and extensions. Many of those gadgets live on in Google’s new Shared Spaces, where you can invite others to contribute, vote and collaborate on the web. More »


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Export Google Waves As ZIP Archives Before The Shut-Off

11:00PM November 10, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

You may or may not continue using Wave as an open-source “box”, but if you want to archive any important conversations you’ve had in it, you can now export a Wave into HTML or ZIP files, attachments included. More »


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Google Wave Lives On (In A Box)

11:30PM September 3, 2010 | Adam Dachis

Google has announced that despite Wave’s demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it. More »


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On Google Wave And “Failed” Experiments

7:30AM August 6, 2010 | Gina Trapani

Yesterday while I was on the air with Jeff and Leo recording TWiG, Google announced that they are halting development on Wave. The web app will be available till the end of the year — with mechanisms to export your current wave data — and the code will remain open source. More »


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Google Halts Wave Development, Shutting It Down By End Of Year

7:20AM August 5, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Sad news on the Google wire today, at least for fans of the next new thing. Google announced, in a post filled with examples of Wave’s innovations and strengths, that the real-time messaging and collaboration tool hasn’t seen “the user adoption we would have liked”. More »


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Google Wave Now Open To Everyone

2:45AM May 20, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Google Wave now lets anyone with a Google account to jump in and see what the early adopters have been squawking (and snarking) about. Head to wave.google.com now to get Waving, but read on for some beginner tips and use cases. More »


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Embed Public Or Private Google Waves On Any Website

5:00AM May 4, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Google Wave now gives bloggers, corporate intranets and other potential Wave users a way to let the public watch what’s going on in a Wave and, for the truly daring, invite any Wave user to edit. More »


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Google Wave Now Lets You Remove Participants

6:45AM April 24, 2010 | Adam Pash

Google Wave has added the ability to remove participants from any wave. It’s a somewhat complex feature (you wouldn’t want someone to be able to, say, delete your email or shared documents), but Google came up with an elegant solution. More »


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Google Wave’s Quick, New Wave Templates Guide Your Wave Use

8:00AM April 21, 2010 | Adam Pash

As excited as some of us still are about Google Wave (hell, two of us wrote a book), Wave’s biggest problem remains: “What would I use it for?” With the app’s new wave templates, Google wants to guide you toward answers. More »


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nowWw Lets You Publish Waves On Facebook, Twitter

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8:30AM March 18, 2010 | Angus Kidman

For Google Wave users, email notifications make it easy to track waves you’re interested in, but what if you want to publish them more broadly with others? nowWw lets you share waves on Facebook and Twitter, sharing them with a wider audience. More »