Google stopped Wave development

[Sathish]

here is the news found in Google blog;

We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops.

We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

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. 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.

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[gagan007]

nice info...

well I have seen that Google has a lot of money to waste in research of just anything that is suggested by any of their employees...they are haphazardly putting money in new initiatives and them junking them if they don't work!

[ico]

I had stopped using Wave a week after I registered.

[Gauravs90]

Google wave and opera unite both are not popular and have failed miserably.

[ico]

Originally Posted by Gauravs90

Google wave and opera unite both are not popular and have failed miserably.

Are you joking?

Many people can't live without Opera Unite. I can't say that about Wave.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by Gauravs90

Google wave and opera unite both are not popular and have failed miserably.

O RLY?

[ratedrsuperstar]

opera unite is soo good.i can' imagine my browsing experience w/o unite and link

[gagan007]

I think what Gaurav wanted to say that Unite (and wave) failed to achieve as much acceptance as Facebook/Twitter have...

[amrit1]

i m using google wave as an online meeting place with my frends to preapare java programs and it helps us quite a lot...
m using opera link to sync my bookmarks from mobile to pc and it is also good..

[ico]

Originally Posted by gagan007

I think what Gaurav wanted to say that Unite (and wave) failed to achieve as much acceptance as Facebook/Twitter have...

Opera Unite isn't a social service like Facebook/Twitter. It is more like running a personal server right through your browser to share content in a more user friendly way. Opera Unite

[anandk]

There is now a http://www.savegooglewave.com/ movement

[Faun]

^^it can't be TRUE !

[Cool Buddy]

i was quite excited about wave when it was launched. i still remember the frenzy that was caused. for around a month there were 200-300 tweets every second, some asking for invites, some giving it away. and when everyone had registered, nobody knew what to do with it. within a week i had stopped opening it. i last opened it when i heard of this news after a gap of about 6 months

Hi
I think Google has taken a correct decision by killings this web app, because wave was an awesome platform, but no one has found it useful in the workplace.

Thanks

[jayantr7]

Mahn..Don't compare any of the Google services except Google and GMail to compete with Facebook....It's[FaceBook] an ultimate site...at least it's my part of life..