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"I am a Theoretical Physicist and I use google wave for collaborating with my colleagues who are in different places around the world. Google wave has to be saved ... it is such a brilliant tool ... unfortunately, badly advertised (not at all ...). A lot of people would quickly realize its potential and the way it can really change collaborative working in a positive way."

"Google should just integrate Google Wave's features directly into GMail and it will take off big time! "

"I use the wave as a way of communicating with my friends and officers of an association that I am in. It has been a lot easier than email to keep up with and helps other people working together more."

"I convinced my advisor to use GWave to collaborate on my master's thesis, papers, and so on. I also made a Google Docs Apresentation showing how grad students could use GWave for papers. I'm very very devastated! please, SAVE GOOGLE WAVE"

"I am a technology student and have been working on a fiction novel for past few months. I collaborate with my girlfriend for the story who lives across the world. Google wave gives us a great way to Add, edit, argue, change, disagree and elaborate on the story all at once in real time. I see no other tool can provide that in present date. I love it. It's a bit ahead of time product for sure, I think it should be worth waiting for people to come up with ways to use it in time. "

"I'm a software developer and I use Wave to co-ordinate my team and talk to my clients. It's given us much faster feedback than we ever had before, and a permanent, shared log of all our discussions. I don't know how I'd be able to work without it, as no other tool offers the same combination of features (IM, email, wiki)." - Ashley Moran

"I am a teacher in an online school (http://bit.ly/ckjyMy) and use wave as part of my class for discussion (led by my questions). The students discussions in wave is 40% of their grade. If wave shuts down, I will have to find some other online program that does what wave does (don't know of one right now)." - Michael Hatcher (bellviewcoc.com)

"I was very excited when I heard about Wave as it struck me as a "fundametally right" approach to collaboration. Due to other personal projects I have not yet explored it and it saddens me that it may disappear before I even have the chance. I am sure there are millions of other not-so-early-adopters like me who will join the party if it is allowed to continue. It's probably a slow burner and just needs a bit more time to gain traction - not unlike many other truly disuptive technologies."

"Google wave was going to revolutionise the way students, lecturers and researchers interacted at university. The extensible nature of wave allowed it to be the glue that brought many aspects of day to day tasks together in one place. There is nothing else that allows you to collaborate so easily, with an ever changing group of people, while embedding a variety of content such as links, videos, equations, documents and images. Wave may not have been suited to the average Joe, but it was just starting to appear useful to 'for-profit' organisations. Google have missed out big time by cancelling wave before such businesses could asses, test and implement Google wave on their Google apps domain. 2 months of public release was not long enough!"

"We use Google Wave to WORK in our little organization. There is NO other product that can be compared to Google Wave, thats the very problem. Please don't close it! And yes, it should be integrated to gmail, at least with labs. Thanks from Chile!"

"Nothing is more cumbersome in an organization than sifting through countless email chains with everyone's thoughts and comments. We've found Google Wave to be invaluable at my company for providing us a single location where we can comment and discuss issues in real-time. If Google Wave goes away, then I guess it's back to old-fashioned email...
-Branden"

"Because I believe in this project and I can see the real possibilities of this tool. Wave should be integrated in Gmail and then we would choose the tool that suit better for each case of communication."

"My girlfriend was injured in the army, currently almost completely quadriplegic, she is also an honor student and has appeared in the dean list for 4 years straight. we use google wave for almost all her work as the key by key synchronization saves us tons to of time as I help her type her assignments and we can enter notes in between etc. save the wave!!!"

"I run a corporate consulting business, providing financial and corporate advisory services to a number of small to medium-sized clients. I have convinced a number of my corporate clients to adopt Google Wave (indeed, the entire Google Apps for Domain Premium suite). Google Wave is incredibly useful for project management for our clients. I have found that the Google Wave environment offers the perfect balance of structure and free-form. I am able to manage agendas, allocate tasks and maintain communication and accountability, all within a single, intuitive environment."

I spent way too much time trying to figure out how to use the Wave, just to find that it's already going obsolete????? That's crazy, the use of this application should be in sci fi series to get it more attention. This application isn't perfect, but neither was Email when it first came out. Everybody thought that was crazy, even old grannies had a hard time learning to use it. We are the "old grannies" of the Wave age, this application is meant for our grandchildren to abuse. They'll get it. It's the way of the future!!!!!!

"Dear Google, First off I want to THANK you for the creation of the ultra-useful utility that is Google Wave. I cannot even describe how wonderful it has been for my band to post discussions and important topics in real time messages. When we used to just email each other honestly, I NEVER read the emails and was often left out of anything important. Not to mention the many other uses for Wave with the gadgets and add-ons and whatnot. I don't know what it would take, but I would be truly disappointed as an avid Google user if Google Wave was taken down for good. I hope that countless emails just like this keep pouring in and your Google Mind will change. Thank you for your time, Hoping I made a difference, " - Miguel G. Commissiong (http://www.junkyardyardluxury.com)

"I've recently begun project managing my new startup with Wave - would be a massive loss. The very least we deserve is the ability to preserve/export Waves so the work and effort we've piled in won't go to loss. -Sam"

"GW is just GREAT for academics... we usually work in small but international teams, often have long-term projects that we need to return to after short, medium or long-term absences and often accumulate a lot of ideas, references etc that need to be organized into threads but are not structured enough to make a document.
Perhaps GW could be re-focussed as an academic tool - then when it is refined and improved, re-release to the general public.. -Gordon"

"Wave is so perfect for writers and filmmakers! I'm developing a sketch comedy show and we conduct all business through Wave; we use it as a message board, IM client, Wiki of new sketch ideas, and just as Wave to do the more intense side of collaboration; things like brainstorming, even in person. The realtime text means that with one person typing, and everyone else with their own screen, we can get all of our ideas down. I was really disappointed to hear they were shutting it down, I've gotten such immense value out of it, I was looking forward to watching it grow. -Ben "

"I am a computer systems engineer and I do lots of voluntary work with lots of my colleagues. We use Google Wave as our basic communication tool and collaboration. It's just too amazing! I check my wave before checking my email. I was shocked when I heard that Google is shutting it down. Such an amazing tool! I have no idea how we used to collaborate before Google wave! Bring back Google Wave! - Mohammad"

"I am a telecommunications postgraduate and was following Wave's development until its release as I was eager to see how it will change the web. And it certainly triggered some changes. An integration with Gmail would've been logical from my point of view and more people would've used it. I see ways of using it for my freelance job as a web technician as Wave provides users with extended collaboration tools and I was looking forward to see more from 3rd parties developers.! - Ilya"

"OK, Google Wave is little bit from the future. From the future where corporate workers use to cooperate in open-way style. We delivered some training to Google Wave new users and find that Wave requisites very strong culture of work.Let say like in Project Management, we need to establish a kind of "Corporate Standards" and templates. As a person involved in Messaging Technologies, Adults and Kids Training, Innovations in Education I believe that Google Wave can change the collaboration/messaging standards. Just push project with cooperation with Novell, get their vision of corporate rights management and additional corporate futures. If Google stop Wave, Wave ideas will be implemented by Microsoft, Novell and others.! - Igor"

"I'm a software developer student, and I use Google Wave with my whole class. I / We love it very much, because it let's us communicate like no other tool. Someone has a question? We all can see it and answer it! We want to learn for a test? We put files on it with summarys and more. Homework? You never miss anything! It's great! ! - Patrik"

I manage a small software development team that has just launched version 1.0 of a new product. Wave is instrumental in eliminating time-consuming "all-hands" meetings, markup-heavy wiki-work, and collaboration-unfriendly emails that have always slowed us down. We use Wave to draft specifications, field ideas to the team, and collect and review customer feedback. It’s becoming a knowledge base from which we can mine past discussions to make better decisions now and into the future using a mechanism that, so far, we can’t find anywhere else. - Jeff

J'ai été trés heureux de découvrir Google Wave sur le net. Je me suis dis "enfin j'ai trouvé l'outil simple et efficace" pour collaborer, suivre un projet, partager ... son arrêt pour moi c'est une grande frustation. Donnons lui sa chance ! - Jean

...So far, I haven't found any as advanced as Google Wave. I love using it, both for my own checklists, but to manage ongoing projects, as a workshifter. I use cloud software, but it's much less cumbersome to have everyone updating the same wave.

Soy arquitecto, y me desempeño como docente y activista en pro de mejoras al entorno para personas con discapacidad. En los últimos meses googlewave se ha convertido en una de mis principales herramientas de comunicación/colaboración, para la integración de proyectos en los que participamos múltiples personas. Las dinámicas de trabajo son muy ágiles, y cuando explico a alguien como funciona, siempre quedan sorprendidos por el potencial de la herramienta. No veo una opción que por lo menos esté cerca. Espero que no lo deshabiliten, pues entonces regresaremos a las viejas herramientas - Carlos

I have been involved in two startups that use Wave as our primary tool for internal collaboration. It has GREATLY enhanced our productivity over sending e-mails back and forth, (epipheo studios captures how it helps us pretty poignantly in their video) particularly for startups that do not have all collaborators in the same location which we fall into. I can see that Wave will be part of why we succeed in the future and I really hope that Google does not drop it. - Pierce

Faceplant Games uses embedded Google Waves as the primary tool for collaboration between game developers and gamers on our site. Plain and simple, it's a fantastic tool with endless possibilities. It served the purpose of a collaborative game development tool perfectly. It's a huge part of the Faceplant Games website and it would be sorely missed. Like so many others though, I'm also very anxious to see what Google has up it's sleeve for the future. They're not abandoning the technology, and it should be interesteing to see how and where they implement it down the road. - Justin Donnell (Faceplant Games

I work in a team wich has all of its members in different countries.,. collaboration work for my company is now IMPOSIBLe without google wave. . back to email or google docs is back to the past! - Rafael

I'm a student, and my whole class is using enthusiastic Google Wave. We use it to learn together an exchange our homework, summarys, and all stuff that is needed at school. Google Wave is an amazing thing. For shure, it's my favorite service in the internet. I love it so much, that i have paintet a picture of it and hanged it up at my wall. - Patrik

If Google Wave was integrated just like buzz in a "Wave Tag" everybody will use it as for planning events, making Polls, etc... it has so many potential... just mix it with GMail, see what happens.... - Javier

Wave isn't about video games, pop music, or vampires. Google Wave is the definition of social. People getting together, sharing ideas, and communicating. I have pulled more than a dozen people into wave's I've created for work, research, photo walk planning, what have you. And every time the comment on how useful it is as a tool. Wave is an idea before its time. It deserves to stay. - Mark

I am a student from the university of Toulon in france, and with my co-worker in computer science, we really often use google wave to share and create new program, we use this like a powerfull instant messenger, but with collaborative part, we have enhance our work in few month because of Google Wave, so we really hope google will keep this technology online... - Kevin

It's a great way to collaborate and chat with friends, connected or not. It's a perfect hybrid of email and chat, but it has a lot of new features wich allow to chat in a natural and collaborative way. - Aldo

...It takes time for organizations to adopt and move into software like Wave. As an educational institution, we have a very seasonal processing/adoption cycle. We were working our way into adopting Wave as part of class discussion as well as organizational collaboration. The instant Wave was available for our domain I added it to a pilot class management project. .. - Al

I used Google Wave to collaborate on our bridge bidding system. It is an irreplacible tool for all sorts of collaborative use cases. The reasons it hasn't seen mass adoption in my opinion are 1) most people have nothing to collaborate on, and they weren't shown otherwise 2) most people didn't even know about Wave 3) there are no mechanisms that accelerate involvement, e.g., seeing who your friends follow. Unfortunately, just building a great product is not enough. - Peteris

My husband and I own a small business providing a variety of media-related services - web development, hosting, design, social networking expertise, etc. We use Google Wave to keep track of jobs and daily tasks. We work with several non-profits and have been touting Google Wave's capabilities and encouraging our clients to try them out. This is a huge loss! - Susan

I've interacted with people on Google Wave because of the fact that it's so easy to use and it's worth the effort. Granted, I have been using Google Wave as just a means of writing stories with friends who aren't close by, but over time I could very well be using it for collage and whatnot since it would make my life easier. Google Wave needs to be saved! - Tea

We have about 6-8 users here who use Wave throughout the workday. We have transferred to Wave from several other applications, such as email, Wiki's, shared doc's etc. We think Wave should be saved. This is my first real disappointment with Google and their suite of products. - Mark

The main reason Google Wave being failure is due to it being a separate project and not getting mileage in comparision to other google products. Well, its a social application and collaboration feature added. However, people needing to move from famous websites to wave is seeming to be uncommon. If its going to be permanently stopped, I will miss it a lot. - Dhruba

I am an RIA software developer; I have used Wave both professionally, and at home. My development group used it to put together notes for user feedback on our project. The group was impressed by how easy it was to use, and it facilitated collaboration. - Russell

I am a project manager for a large construction firm and we use the wave to communicate and manage many large scale project throughout the business - i also use it as a personal manager and brainstorming tool I can use from any computer - can't live without it! - Robin (saidhousinggroup.com.au)

It seems the vast majority of people who want to see Wave die a silent, quick death are those who 1) never used it or 2) never found a use for it or 3) never understood it or its potential. Meanwhile, there are many, like myself, who continue to use Wave on a daily basis as a both a collaboration tool as well as a information library of sorts. My biggest problem with Wave's imminent demise is the absence of any suitable substitute. What do I do now with all my active Waves? - Mike

Google Wave is a great way for me to collaborate on my Computer Science projects and other school work. While you can communicate online via email and share documents with Google Docs, Google Wave puts these features all in one spot making them easy to access and share with other people. Not to mention it's purpose can extend beyond all that with its extendability. It may not be useful for everything, but if people actually give it a try they'll quickly see how it can be useful. - Gixugif

1. It could be the best chat client. There are plenty of people using gtalk. And gtlak with wave features would have provided a good platform for drawing people to the main wave. 2. It is the most interesting and promising collaboration platform yet. 3. It's so much better than email! It's surprising Google gave up so easily on wave! - Sandeep

I am a software developer and use GWaves to offer distance programming learning to students and professionals in my country. It is a perfect interactive way to teach programming and there is nothing like that. I think GWaves simply must exist. - Dan

If Wave can't be saved I at least demand that all the features be incorporated into GMail and/or Docs. Really that's how it should have been since the beginning, but I really don't want to see this product die. I use it DAILY to collaborate on projects with my fiance. - Dave