Google Wave will no longer receive the support of Google.
Today on the Google blog, the following statement pretty much sums up why Wave will no longer be one of Google’s supported product offerings:
“ Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.”
Wave, launched in May 2009, was supposed to revolutionize communication as “a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser.” It did anything but with few users allowed to use the service initially, and ultimately just as few using the service when it went live to all earlier this year.
So long Wave. It was nice knowing you and not using you.
You mean Google “Waves” Goodbye?
indeed. that just seemed a little too easy. puns are fun, but I threw up in my mouth a little at the thought of making that the title.
Very interesting. Hats off to Google for ‘failing quickly’ I say.
When it came out, and I finally got an invite, I used it for a whole 5 minutes, I still think, I could have used that 5 minutes, to watch cat videos on the internet. That would have been more usefull for me.
there’s cat videos on the internet?
Can’t say that I’m too surprised – read this: http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/05/28/google-wave-is-1-year-old-today-but-will-anybody-show-up-to-the-party/
I saw in Google Wave an great replacement for all these comments on every website.. It could be so cool… I think the problem for wave come from users: they aren’t ready for this type of innovation.
yes, i totally agree…
think about how easy it would be to get someone to be involved in a conversation that was started X amount of days/weeks/months/years ago
if you hired someone on and told them that all they need to do is read a wave conversation from 03/18/2010 through now, then hey, a few hours passes by and they are all caught up… but unfortunately, no one really took advantage of that
im sure there are plenty of other reasons as to why google wave = good but I guess we will have to wait until everyone else comes up to speed with google
Well, I guess my recently finished google wave client http://micro-wave.appspot.com is totally useless.
Fatal flaws of Wave:
1. Lacked a mobile UI that was usable
2. Lacked easy group integration (having to add people one by one was really pretty 1995-ish) and the workaround of using a GoogleGroup was laugh out loud funny.
3. Ultimately not stable.
Google wave was ahead of its time…. Just like the tablet PC that Bill Gates introduced in the beginning of the century
Fatal flaws of Wave:
1. What’s Wave?
I remember when wave was introduced, I imagined all the possibilities and was quite excited. Now, more than a year later (if it’s not more), I totally forgot about it.
Hopefully something inovative like wave will show up in some other decade – I still think a similar product will become part of our lives.
Gmail revolutionised email… so people were desperate to be invited for it. Google Wave revolutionised… umm… nothing significant and there wasn’t the rush to get a precious logon. Apps like Basecamp are far better!
Wave is not dead.
At http://wavelook.com, we’ve created the first and only Wave client for Outlook and our wave web app is in private beta.
It’s a real shame. The real-time multi-user apps supported by wave have a great future. We have a Google Wave travel-planner called “Travel WithMe”,
and people love the real-time experience.
Sensing that wave might not be going places, we’ve put it on facebook now as well, but still with Google Wave’s realtime features. It’s at apps.facebook.com/travel-withme.
ICQ did come up with live tipyng back in nineteen ninety something. Don’t brag about it, Google.
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