Google Wave is Dead.

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... 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.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

  On 9/30/2009 at 8:54 PM, chaosmachine said:

prediction: google wave is the next google knol.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=knol%2C+wikipedia%2C+google+wave

fine by me. Just take the useful stuff and move on.

lol wave bye bye.

It was quite useful for making lists and stuff. I had a thematic YouTube video wave going on with disparaissant for a bit. Welp, once last look to see if you can pick up women on it.

They never really believed in it did they? Never pushed it all the way to the public. It was a nice techdemo, some good ideas. But current javascript engines are still too slow to replace something like Outlook.

I love the way they keep up the RND though.

quelle surprise. crashy, unused piece of shit. on CHROME. i mean i would have expected it to work properly on chrome.

Haven't heard it mentioned since it was announced and I didn't even understand what it was

it was kinda useless because it didn't know what it was, forcing it to behave like email was bad imo they should've thought of another way to implement that technology/concept.

Google failed. Googles world standing now: Still on top.

google fails more and more. even bing gets better than google in parts. only gmail is still as good as it used to be but they nearly ruined it with that buzz shit nobody needs. and chrome is nice but needs some better adblock.

I'm with Coalbucket. What the hell was it anyway?

  On 8/5/2010 at 9:44 AM, -Ad- said:

I'm with Coalbucket. What the hell was it anyway?

It was a forum alike / email mix. so emails where some kind of intelligent topics where you could share content and add people to the conversion.

I never understood what it was supposed to be doing either.

From what I remember there was a large PDF of instructions and a 10-min intro video that just waxed lyrical about how it was a 'revolution' and didn't actually tell you how it was supposed to work.

Social-networking apps have to be easy to grasp, intuitive. I think a Google thinktank imagined this Twitter/Facebook/E-mail hybrid, pumped some money into it's production, but never actually tested it or probably even used it themselves.

the main problem was that only people with a wave account could use and it that way it was way inferior to email

the tech video was good. it ran like a piece of shit though :F

I'm with coalbucket and -ad- - what the fuck WAS google wave? what did it do?

all i know is that the new google image search sucks balls.

i liked what little use of it i got. when it was in beta it was fun, like future girlfriend said. but when it was actually released it seemed to slow down to the point where i couldn't even use it anymore. so i won't miss it.

  On 8/5/2010 at 10:21 AM, o00o said:

the main problem was that only people with a wave account could use and it that way it was way inferior to email

I got sent an invite to use Wave but because I never figured out what it was meant to do, I never bothered.

They promoted it terribly.

i had a bunch of friends using it and was every now and then being included in the included list of peeps. it was just a big confusing email thing that seemed cool but was really kinda not so cool.

  On 8/5/2010 at 8:02 PM, Obel said:

  On 8/5/2010 at 10:21 AM, o00o said:

the main problem was that only people with a wave account could use and it that way it was way inferior to email

 

I got sent an invite to use Wave but because I never figured out what it was meant to do, I never bothered.

 

They promoted it terribly.

Yeah. I liked the concept. Maybe if it had been integrated with gmail/email better instead of being its own separate thing I would have used it more than about 3 times.