So it’s safe to say that Google Wave didn’t really make one upon the tech world as a whole, but it certainly was a neat idea. While Wave itself now lives with the Apache Software Foundation , the core concept, easy and direct collaboration with anyone, has new life with Google Shared Spaces. The Wave gadgets have been given a standalone home here, the idea being that you create a Space, invite some people, and then do — well, whatever it is you need to do. It’s basically just a more task-focused version of Wave, and maybe that’s all the service really needed. Direction. Right now there are just shy of 50 such gadgets for you to try, but anyone with a little JavaScript know-how can whip up their own in a jiffy, though sadly there’s no interactive gadget-creation Space. Now that would be something. [Thanks, Hassan] Google Spaces shows us where Wave went originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink