*Le Sigh*…Some things are just never meant to be. Google has decided to "Wave" good bye to a project, that, not many apparently understood, or used, for that matter.
Here's Google's "eulogy" of sorts about the project:
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 has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.
So there you have it. Did you ever get a chance to use Wave, MaclLifers? Will you miss it? Didn't even know it existed? Feel free to leave comments below!
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b_dubb
August 05, 2010 at 10:17am
i feel like google is sometimes just trying to impress people with how clever they are. Wave was interesting but almost no one ever heard of it and less had access to the beta. i signed up for an invitation and never got one. forced to wait till it was opened to the public.
i feel like they aren't giving it a chance. they need to promote it better. but google is engineering for engineers by engineers. and they don't seem to understand that not everyone on earth is an engineer. and google doesn't get 'creative types' at all.
arithehun1
August 09, 2010 at 1:00pm
Perfect typo! How many people are "head" of things that they never used! There is no such thing as an accident.
What
August 05, 2010 at 3:35am
When are people going to realize that Google is not the innovator people think they are. It's another failure for Google and waste of investors $$$
xrayted
August 05, 2010 at 3:11am
Never heard of it? What does it do? I can't seem to figure it out from the article.
I guess it doesn't matter.
zachsterza1994
August 04, 2010 at 8:05pm
I to a test drive on wave. but then stop using it. Because all the functionality i already had using Gmail and such. the extra stuff i didn't need. and there wan't anyone else to use it with, Like i already have friends on google talk and such. I don't mind saying good bye to google wave.
