Endless Paradigm

When it was first announced and went out in beta, there seemed to be a lot of enthusiasm around a number of forums about Google Wave, with some people stating it to be "the death to all other forms of electronic [text based, interactive] communication".
Now, quite a while after the initial launch, where is it now?  I've hardly heard much about it lately and don't see heaps of people jumping the bandwagon.
Some people in a team project decided to use Wave instead of emails, and I personally found that, although it was an interesting idea, I don't see how it got so much hype (then again, I'm rarely ever impressed).  In fact, I found the system downright annoying compared to emails - it wouldn't work in Opera, file attachments didn't work properly in Firefox, so I had to install Chrome in a VM to use it properly.  The fact that all conversation went in one big thread made searching through and sorting through info a pain.  I honestly would've preferred a plain old email system.

So, do you ever use Google Wave?

I remembering hearing about it a while ago, and thinking it would be a cool idea. I never heard from it since. Didn't even know it had gone through beta, or been released. Might look into it, but can't be bothered. Much of the enthusiasm I once had for Google Wave died when I became less social on the internet. I no longer wish to communicate with people on web pages and discuss things about the pages with them....

focus shift to http://www.google.com/buzz ?

What are they doing over there? oO

google trying to go into social networking.

i remember begging for an invite, then i got it, went on like twice, and cba to go on again. it was sort of, "oh well heres another email thing with some cool features that everyone you talk has to has to have an account on to use any of the cool features." like im going to go through the trouble to convince all my friends to get google wave accounts, and then actually synchronize when were on so wee can enjoy it? pffft.

cool idea though.

I thought it got shut down. Obviously not.

future development was canned

but it still exists for the few people who do use it

I think it had some nice ideas, but ultimately, I found it too annoying to use.
A wiki/email type hybrid that it was certainly has some uses, but I think claims that were made initially were somewhat too ambitious.