Am I the only person mourning Google Wave? : " Naturally, there’s been a lot of coverage of Google’s decision to set aside Google Wave . For the most part, it seems the prevailing opinion is that Wave was an innovative solution for a problem that didn’t exist. I don’t agree with this – instead, I think that we’ve missed an opportunity by not considering Wave in the appropriate context. Some months ago we published a piece on using social media design patterns to influence development of enterprise software. The gist was that there are design elements within all the major social networks which have relevance in the enterprise context. I’d like to revisit two of the specific observations which are relevant here. Workplaces are full of short, real-time interactions Obviously, this remains true. It’s also true that, for the most part, these interactions are limited to your local office. In too few projects in my consulting life, I’ve had entire distributed teams using IM. For every ...