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emot1conAug 5, 2010
It's about time.
huntermcwhiteAug 5, 2010
As long as they don't start waving an axe!
staggxAug 6, 2010
It was too complicated, even for the Internet.
formerbabbyAug 5, 2010
I liked Wave a lot. I would have used it at work but people are not eager to learn new was of doing things. I can understand why, Wave looks like a scary beast to sales and marketing people; us tech heads love new s**t like this.
Hopefully Google took the first step to something bigger. I would love an email system with integrated collaboration tools like Wave. Sharepoint is closest thing we have for now.
covertbadgerAug 5, 2010
I'm a tech head, and I thought Wave was s**t. A solution looking for a problem.
typeeeAug 5, 2010
have you tried? It's work so well as a whiteboard.
covertbadgerAug 5, 2010
Yes, I tried it. No, I don't think it worked well as a whiteboard. You know what really works well as a whiteboard? A whiteboard.
simgAug 5, 2010
whiteboards don't work so well over the net ...
covertbadgerAug 5, 2010
Trying to use whiteboards over the net is a flawed concept anyway. That's why online whiteboards suck - including Wave.
robohitlerAug 5, 2010
The issue wasn't that people weren't eager to use it and learn it, it's that thousands of incredibly eager people (most of whom were "tech heads") who were frothing at the mouth for invitations to use it were enormously disappointed when they got access.
As a technology proof of concept it was good, and a lot of the functionality will reappear integrated into other products like Docs, Talk and Gmail where they make more sense (for example collaborative real-time editing would trump Microsoft's equivalent in Office Web Apps/Sharepoint 2010, which requires a refresh to see changes), but as an almost standalone product Wave was redundant from day one.
jqp123Aug 5, 2010
"... us tech heads love new s**t like this."
Many tech heads love new technology just for the sake of technology.
Most non-tech heads only love new technology when it does something that they find useful.
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zemoxianAug 9, 2010
I think that integration is the one think it lacked. The 2nd problem is the signup. It's so easy to embed a wave into another web page like a blog, or even a simple html page on the desktop. If you could start embedding waves in emails, tweets, and Facebook statuses with easy or no signup, you would have had a wave of new followers (pun intended). If I received an email that updated itself and grew in my inbox and that I could update without even hitting reply, I'd probably be using a whole lot more Wave and less email.
Threads in mailing lists would fold into individual messages. Blog posts and news articles would be self commenting, and and... I'll stop my rant now.
typeeeAug 5, 2010
Probably bad marketing, what's wave? It takes a while to explain and it was marketed to replace email and it certainly is not. Plus, they should have integrate it w/ gmail so you can create a new email or new wave in gmail.
I use it quite a bit to organize my podcast w/ my friends, it's extremely useful.
nevermiss1Aug 5, 2010
Not lookin good for Google
iph0neAug 5, 2010
i doubt it.
jqp123Aug 5, 2010
Google is really good at only one thing ---- collecting personal data and selling it to advertisers.
Everything else they do is aimed at supporting this effort in some way.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
luckyscsAug 5, 2010
They have had it out for only a year and they have very little of their capital invested in it. Wave was introduced a little too early. They still have all the intelectual property behind it and I am sure they will introduce it again in either the same way or integrated into their products in the next 5 years.
amyvernonAug 5, 2010
A lot of people are going to be watching closely. I can't remember the last online platform that got the buzz that Wave did. Their new "facebook killer" had better succeed or Google's going to lose its social mojo. If it has any.
badqatAug 5, 2010
The biggest thing about Wave that really stunk is that it really wasn't ready for prime time. Awesome potential, but just not approachable for most folks.
I realize we geeks love Google - but average peeps are like - I want the iPhone 4. The one with 32 GeeBees. If it's not easy to pick up, it's not likely to ever be adopted by a critical mass.
I also fear this fate for Buzz. I kind of like Buzz - it's unique and neat. Some great people there, too. :)
almostevilAug 5, 2010
I hope Google does axe Buzz, integrating it into gmail was a horrible decision. Buzz should have been a separate sub-site of google like buzz.google.com or buzz.com and not enabled by default and not integrated into gmail. I go to gmail for mail, not for social networking s**t.
jqp123Aug 5, 2010
"If it's not easy to pick up and use, it's not likely to ever be adopted by a critical mass."
Agreed. Now for the deeper philosophical question --- Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
In other words, is this a shortcoming of the masses ... or of the technology?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. To the masses, it doesn't necessarily have to look like magic but if it's not easy to pick up and use, it's definitely not "sufficiently advanced".
bonesehAug 5, 2010
I only use it as a daily task list so it doesn't clutter up my google docs. Never really used it for anything else though. Oh well...
typeeeAug 5, 2010
then there are better tool like google task, toodledo or rememberthemilk
ahfmakAug 5, 2010
Cool technology, but unfortunately not many ppl to wave to.
factorof13Aug 5, 2010
What did they axe it?
baathorAug 5, 2010
Common on, seriously this was on the Home 1h ago!
http://digg.com/tech_news/RIP_Google_Wave
bobertoqAug 5, 2010
It was originally posted 10 hours ago:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
immatellyouwhatAug 5, 2010
I remember when it was here 2 years ago.... wait what?
long189Aug 5, 2010
Humanity may never know exactly what Wave was supposed to be...
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
The world just wasn't ready
shooverAug 5, 2010
I'm hoping they integrate the functionality into docs, it'll fit better there anyway.
ryandeissAug 5, 2010
me too, i'd like to have that addition, but didn't ever see the need to have a separate platform fo them
aldolinaresAug 5, 2010
http://bit.ly/bXJcwg
grizzleytAug 5, 2010
Did they axe it because of weak user adoption or because the UI issues were insurmountable?
theshizzlerAug 5, 2010
This sucks. My friends and I are planning a big trip early next year. We finally got around to using it and it's working really well. I hope google reconsiders, or at least decides to slowly implement Wave's features into gmail and docs.
cloudberriesAug 5, 2010
Goodbye Wave, I liked you a lot...
that one time I used you
a year ago
mcklatchAug 5, 2010
It's Google's own fault there... they would have had better user adoption if it wasn't limited to invitations from the start.
by the time it went public none of the invitation users were there anymore, and they weren't using it simply because not enough people were invited to use it.
znicketAug 5, 2010
It was suffering from a lack of definition. What was it for? Who actually found it useful or entertaining?
To me it was an exercise of frustration, trying to keep up with waves here and there.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
manujarchAug 5, 2010
Could have been a groups extension...
lewkusAug 5, 2010
i thought it wasn't finished yet.
DAMNIT
jonandcakeAug 5, 2010
Dupes are getting really bad
upickAug 5, 2010Submitter
I agree with you 3 on the front page, I didn't even see it when I subbed it but that dupe checker of digg, FAIL
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
Well, maybe if they didn't have such a strict invite policy more people would have been able to experience it. Wave is no fun if nobody you knows has it.
roiperezAug 5, 2010
Cannot wait for the lawsuit by a company who sues them because they fully adopted Wave as their work system and now can no longer use it.
ronnisrAug 5, 2010
Since Wave is build so it runs on several servers these companies can setup their own wave server.
spazzcatAug 5, 2010
This was good idea, just poorly executed. My biggest complaint was I had to go in to Wave to see if I had any new Waves. They need to intergrate it with gmail and have clients for smart phones.
corezzAug 5, 2010
After reading about it i STILL dont have a clue what it is.
jedikvAug 5, 2010
Don't think google knew either
jqp123Aug 5, 2010
How many people really needed email, collaboration and instant messaging all smashed together? Apparently not too many.
patch5216Aug 5, 2010
Google - "weak user adoption." They should have made it so it wasn't invite only.
dimitarnikolovAug 5, 2010
the problem wasn't weak user adoption. It's just that Google never defined precisely what Wave was all about. How do they expect a non-geek user to adopt Wave's concept when they have no clear idea what it does?
Too bad. It was a great idea with bad targeting.
mabakerbrakerAug 5, 2010
First they f**k up Image search now this. Google is loosing lit.
sotoninAug 5, 2010
oh no... they can't lose lit... what will do they do without lit!
hdrkidAug 5, 2010
Dude, these tubular waves are awesome.
alienkidAug 5, 2010
Maybe if they released it to more than like 4 people it could have caught on? OR if the video that explained what it was was shorter than an hour and a half
thomn8rAug 5, 2010
This
huntermcwhiteAug 5, 2010
Wave tried to do too much at once.
I think people prefer their apps to do one thing well than several things in a mindbogglingly confusing fashion.
samadams2point0Aug 5, 2010
too bad, awesome looking logo.
aminy23Aug 5, 2010
I was using Google Wave since the start. and it had many things I loved, and many things I hated. Wave was a great concept, and if Google played there cards right, I think wave would have had the potential to eventually replace email. Unfortunately, Google only invited 100,000 people, and not many people knew other people who used wave, so it was pointless for us. I invited 4 or 5 people, but we could only communicate with each other, so we never used it. Google then opened it up to the public, but they only had a small banner on there website telling people, and I never even noticed, because I never had to log on to wave, because I was always signed into Google whenever I would go there. In addition, Wave had no advertising, so the average person with a Google account had no idea about its existence, and then Google stops development because of the lack of interest.
chrystie69Aug 5, 2010
Finally...what took them so long?? OYE!
kevaldesaiAug 6, 2010
Good technology, bad application (so far) ...
buckrogers1965Aug 8, 2010
Wave has only been out of beta for 3 months. Isn't that too short a time for something so different to be given a real chance? Why not keep it running for a decade before deciding if it was a success or not?
user_personAug 18, 2010
I didn't think it ever made it to 'beta'? I thought it was still in 'preview'. It'd just be open to the public for 3 months. That's semantics, anyway. Supposedly it's resource intensive. I don't know about a decade, it need a relaunch or something. Hopefully it'll get that in some form or another.
illestlyricsAug 8, 2010
This is what happens when you offer too many products. If another company had this exact software, and stuck with it for a couple years, then it would probably be successful.
westvalleyprosSep 9, 2010
Google just released its new search interface with Google Wave
http://www.indianapolisseotraining.com/google-instant-changes-how-we-search/