[spicybright]

It was also doomed because of Google's terrible invite system.

The few of my friends that got in early couldn't do anything because there were so few others, and everyone else just forgot about it months later after the hype died down.

No idea why they keep doing this.

[com2kid]

It worked for Gmail, but Gmail was so far ahead of everything else at the time that people really wanted in.

Limited invites can create buzz, Facebook did it well by inviting entire universities at once, that got around the problem of "no one else you know is on it."

Inviting purely random people to a collaborative system? Eh, not such a good idea!

[slowmovintarget]

It was doomed because you couldn't mix gmail and waves. That meant any real conversations couldn't be had. Waves ended up being just horsing around with your colleagues.

"This is neat!"

"Yeah!"

"Wave!"

"That was cool."

"Yeah."

"K. Bye."