Comments on: Google Pulls the Plug on Google Wave

By: Google Shared Spaces: Quick and Dirty Collaboration: Business Collaboration News «

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:00:58 +0000

[...] soon-to-be-defunct Google Wave has a huge number of available gadgets, which enable users to easily add useful collaborative [...]

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Google’s Hotpot Launches — But Will Anyone Use It?: Tech News « — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:01:40 +0000

[...] the ill-fated Wave and its cousin Buzz, of course (which tried to get to viral success by adding all your email [...]

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Facebook Launches All-in-One “Social Inbox”: Tech News « — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:06:26 +0000

[...] many ways, what Facebook is trying to do seems a lot like Google’s ill-fated Wave service: namely, a single product that combines different forms of communication — email, instant [...]

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Google’s Real Problem – GTD: Tech News « — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:32:19 +0000

[...] in his interview explained that getting things done (GTD) was a big problem at Google and shutting down of his project, Google Wave, a year after it was made available as a beta, is a sign that it was getting hard to [...]

By: WaveLook

WaveLook — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:11:43 +0000

Matthew,
Wave is not dead, it’s alive and well at http://wavelook.com

We’ve just released our Wave client for Microsoft Outlook that has a unified inbox (emails and waves in the same inbox)

We are working on a Wave webapp that will let you sign into any wave server (sign up for beta waiting list at http://wavelook.com)

And we are working on a Wave server that will run in the cloud or you can deploy locally so that you can migrate your data from Google Wave (sign up for beta waiting list at http://wavelook.com)

So if you like Wave, you can still keep using it. It’s not going anywhere.

wave or email us for details: info@wavelook.com

By: pankajunk

pankajunk — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:40:02 +0000

This is a little scary for businesses who want to try to piggyback off Google products. What about developers or consultants who had devised plans based on Wave's success. They'll be wary next time. Business tools clearly need to define use cases, only then can businesses map them to their needs. Google had none and was totally unstructured. At Hyper Office, we've found that companies need their collaboration tools to be wrapped around the team/group structure.

By: Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:28:57 +0000

Oh, Irony; your karma ran over somebody’s dogma. At the bottom of this page, I see a link for WebWorker Daily, “Using Google Wave in the Enterprise.” (http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/08/02/using-google-wave-in-the-enterprise/)

Granted, enterprise software is too often where bad dinosaurs go to die, but really…

By: Kro

Kro — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:35:31 +0000

Google was cancelling any further development of the feature, which the Google executive admitted “has not seen the user adoption we would have liked.”

Well I rarely used wave not because it was new or complex or not even because I didn’t know what was that, the main reason (and many of my friends too) I didn’t want to jump from Gmail to wave (and vice versa) for services that mostly well handled by Gmail it self, if wave was added in Gmail (as integrated) in a way will not annoy the user and at same time can experience its new features I think it will get some good adoption, specially they are from the same provider. I think the problem was not in wave idea itself but the way they put it on plate for other users to experience it was not proper.

By: Kelsey Childress

Kelsey Childress — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:51:51 +0000

I thought Wave was going to be huge, but it kind of sputtered out.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:12:55 +0000

Google didn’t create YouTube, it acquired it once it was succesful. Their web video offering was Google Video, which is still around, but used all that much.