[Slackwise]

Google Wave was an XMPP-based protocol¹. It allowed communication and collaboration with revisioning. It could have been embedded into applications such as office suites, giving you collaboration and communication right inside the app.

Wave.google.com was an example product using said protocol. Since the protocol was barely spoken of, even by developers, everyone assumed the website was the (only) product. Since the website did a lot of things, and none of it well, often being compared to email, it flopped and the entire project folded..

Now the project lives on in obscurity under Apache: http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html

¹ Technically, the "Wave Federation Protocol", but anyone that really looked into Wave would know that the protocol was the most important element of the project.

[maaku]

> It could have been embedded into applications such as office suites, giving you collaboration and communication right inside the app.

You mean like google docs?