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God bless you guys! Wave saved and keeps evolving. I would single out two successors those look the most attractive.

First one is co-meeting.com. I guess everyone remembers that Wave's UI wasn't too friendly and wasn't easy for weak computers. Co-meeting tries to create just something like "simple tool for online meetings". Nice try!

Rizzoma is significantly different. Developers use a comprehensive approach to collaboration and knowledge management. It makes service not so simple, but surely more powerfull. Mindmap view of the text you just wrote down is amazing (but still needs to be less awkward). Public topics look promising too.

My mother is a nurse. From 2007 to 2011 she helped one man with memory disorder. On 2012 she had to leave the country. Her patient couldn't find another nurse and mother supported him by phone and skype. Every time she repeated the things they've been talking already.

As an experiment they started to write down questions and answers in Rizzoma. It was a miracle! He get his memory with online software. It seems as it wasn't absolutely broken it just needed stable basis and Rizzoma works well for it.

"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."

So excited to see all this wave-alike tools alive. I personally have made my choice shortly after Wave was closed. I have been using Rizzoma since then, and couldn't be more happy, freaking love it.

Wave was the brilliant project. All its the successors are doing the great job. But there is a difference in understanding of the Wave concept. Rizzoma seems the most thoughtfull service and has the widest toolset for realtime collaboration. At least couple of times per month developers add several new features, update (or even kill) old ones and — it’s extremely important — carefully listen to the feedback by users.

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'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 would like to thank wavewatchers community here. This guys kept the fire burning when everyone else surrendered. They are like Martin Luther King-s, Batmans and Sonics Hedgehogs all-in-one. I believe that without their influence, non of this would be possible. Wave services will conquer the world one day, thanks to wavewatchers.

I am a teacher in an online school 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).

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!

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!!!