Wave Goodbye to Google Wave

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Google has pulled the plug on Google Wave. The search giant cited poor user adoption but said they will maintain the site at least through the end of the year.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, 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.
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I never really found a use for it. Glad that parts of it will be open source though.
 
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I never really found a use for it. Glad that parts of it will be open source though.
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Yeah me either. It seemed like a really cool idea, and if it had a killer app to drive adoption, I think it could have done really well. Unfortunately it didn't.

Too soon maybe?
 
All they managed to do was over complicate some very simple things.
 
I remember watching a video that tried to explain the point of Google Wave, but I just couldn't really see its advantage over already available apps.
 
First, the Nexus 1, now the Wave. My how the mighty have fallen. Cant say MS is doing any better with the Kin, and the tablet thingy. Then you have Apple and Applegate and the Iphone "Your holding it wrong" BS. Its been a rather bad summer for tech hay?
 
It was poorly implemented, very poorly promoted, and couldn't get a foothold to the average person because they really didn't know it existed. Google really snuffed the life out of it before it even started.
 
I was riding the Wave on an early invite. All I can say was that it was cool and neat, but like most I was in that "Okay, now what?" It seems like if you weren't part of a bigger group using it already, it was boring and didn't really have purpose for your everyday use. Oh well, I'm sure they learned a lot from building it, people using it, etc. Back to the Google Labs...
 
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Some friends and I tried long distance gaming with it. That was kinda cool but also a chore of epic proportions.
 
Yea I tried using it to organize some team projects but it was just a royal pain most of the time to do the simplest stuff. We still used SVN for our code, and Steam just to chat online or text message over the phone (not a huge project). But we had to force ourselves to use Wave instead of it being a convenience and something we wanted to keep using.
 
Wave is a decent intra-friend blogging tool, though many probably prefer Facebook instead.
 
Seems like they left it to die after the original keynote. So much potential in which they could have easily worked straight into gmail.
 
It felt like it was trying to be somewhere between an office group type of tool, but with integrated facebook-like features.
It was a chore to use, hard to figure out initially, and you really had to have buy-in from your other friends/contacts.
It's something that was probably too much, too soon and wasn't user friendly at all.
 
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Seems like they left it to die after the original keynote. So much potential in which they could have easily worked straight into gmail.
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I have a feeling that's where we'll see part of Wave being implemented next. Real-time collaboration/communication within e-mail.
 
Well, there's yer problem Google.

No one knew WTF it was LOL
 
I used it with 3 or 4 friends as a forum for discussion... It was really, really useful, until we ran out of things to discuss. :p

The "playback" feature and instant text were the two techs that will hopefully survive in some form or another.
 
"and you really had to have buy-in from your other friends/contacts."

This

I find it hard to get anyone to really use any of the shared features for the docs and calender, didn't even bother with wave.
 
My friends and I all jumped all over it, then promptly forgot about it since we couldn't find a use for it. It seems like a mix of IM, email and Facebook all at once but seeing as those things already exist why replace them all with one service whose purpose had to be explained in a 10-minute video?
 
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