I have never understood the power of petitions.. no matter how many people add themselves to this petition will that make a difference? Will google change its mind if a 300 odd (or even 3000 or even 30000) people add themselves to this?
Save Google Wave
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#23This site … it's like they turned Google Wave into a mix of http://YourWorldOfText.com and 4chan. THAT use of the technology would be awesome.
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#24I have never understood the power of petitions.. no matter how many people add themselves to this petition will that make a difference? Will google change its mind if a 300 odd (or even 3000 or even 30000) people add themselves to this?
Especially when google says in their shutdown notice "despite … numerous loyal fans"
They know a small but loyal following uses wave. They are shutting down because that wasn't what they had in mind for wave. They were aiming big and failed. That's ok, but only if it doesn't continue to drain from the company.
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#25I have never understood the power of petitions.. no matter how many people add themselves to this petition will that make a difference? Will google change its mind if a 300 odd (or even 3000 or even 30000) people add themselves to this?
Google actually does. Here's one example http://act.ly/3o, where people in Romania were petitioning to get street level data added to Google Maps. Google responded fairly quickly and about a month later had data, which they then asked all the people who tweeted the petition to beta test.
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#26I never found out what Google Wave was for, so it is really not a big loss.
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#27Warning: The petition just got overtaken by an army of trolls.
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#28I'd rather they just integrate Wave with Gmail, something that I wanted from the start. I had no use for Wave, on its own, especially in the early days when invites were slow to go out. For a long time, Wave sat there, unused. By the time more of my friends and colleagues got access, no one cared anymore. This is a shame, because Wave has tons of potential.
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#29I never found out what Google Wave was for, so it is really not a big loss.
Do people really think like this?
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#30The most obvious feature Google should have invested 5,000 man hours in: making Wave seamless in GMail as a standard. If you are talking to another GMail user, Wave should be automatically turned on for that message. I do not understand why this wasn't deathly obvious to them from the day that they announced Wave at Google IO 2009.