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Google Says ‘Good-Bye’ to Google Wave

August 6, 2010 by

After a little more than a year, Google is waving “good-bye” to Google Wave.

Google Wave was supposed to be the hot new social networking platform and for a time you were considered special if you had been one of the lucky ones to receive an invite. The only thing is many people, including me, couldn’t find a pratical “real work” use for it.

With Google Wave, collaborators share—in real time or over time—e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves. Waves are kind of a cross between chatting and threaded discussions on a blog.

Google said on its blog on Wednesday that it is halting Google Wave development. 

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.

That means after 2010 Google Wave will be kaput. I, for one, will be sorry to see it go—I did see a lot of potential in it—but I’ll be so busy following conversations on Twitter (what I found to be the hot new social networking platform) and tweeting to miss it.

What do you think killed Google Wave? Please share your ideas in the comments section below.



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