Google Announces Death of Google Wave

I still don't know what "Google Wave" is ?!

I actually really like Wave. Too bad I don't know anyone else that has an account. Google really needed to push for higher adoption rates to get it off the ground. Classic chicken/egg scenario.

Never used it. No problem

And I Googled Waved goodbye.

i remember being invited to join it but never followed through with it. at the time i think i was confused what it actually and assumed it was some other social networking thing i wouldnt really use. integration into the google homepage or into gmail might have worked better. i dont go crazy with buzz but i have used it on occasion, so i agree that they just didnt push it enough for many people to even try it.

maybe they should have sent me a reminder saying i was eligible/invited to use it and maybe re-explain what it was.

either way, too late now. /wave

Google's idea to create apps people can use on the cloud is great.

Google's implementation of said and the fact they have WAY too many apps to conceive is the crux of their problems.

Focus on adoption of more of the mainstream apps Google.

Never had heard of it.

I remember I had to get an "invite" from someone who already had access to use Wave. Even after that, I only looked into it once.

Brilliant tech, horrible implementation.

Wave was awesome... actually got pretty useful with university group work too, problem is that too little people had actually heard of it DX

Wave goodbye.

I tried it for a short time. It never really felt like anything more than a chat room.

Already from the beginning I saw an article of how these guys inventing it, said it would take over the world, like google maps did.
I knew they where wrong.
This only proves it!

There's value in google maps, not in google wave.
To an extend, facebook allows us to be updated with just about the max we can handle.
Anything more is just too complex for the user.
And if even the google wave inventors could not convince the journalists, how can they convince us, who did 'no' research about it at all?

I didn't use it that much, but it was awesome for collaboration. I did a lot of school projects in groups with wave. The problem was getting the computer illiterate people away from IE6 and onto firefox or chrome.

It failed because it wasn't streamlined enough, and it didn't really replace e-mail (like it sounded like it was supposed to do)

I really liked the Wave. I have only been using it for about a month but I thought that it was a great idea. I think the concept is great and I hope that they do add it to gmail. It is really efficient imo.

I tried getting an invite any way I could, and they still never sent me one. 1 more user they could have had.

Perhaps they should have done a little integration into Gtalk. Like, if I could see what was being written, as it was being written, I feel I'd be wasting a lot less times waiting for a reply in an IM.

Is it just me, or is this the first thing Google's ever done that isn't successful?

too bad, i not even try before ~
may be they should shut down google talk first ? hehe

It had some promise for collaborative development between remote teams and was used for some RPGs but for the general public it was sort-of redundant with social media sites like Facebook. To be useful all the participants needed Google accounts and a lot of people didn't want to bother.

There was a humor site that posed questions: "Which is easier to understand, [X] or Google Wave?"

Some of the choices were: differential calculus, combinatorial game theory, your own existence, etc...

But what I'm trying to say is. Google Wave was probably too difficult to use.

What if we promote the hell out of it now? I would laugh if 100,000 people suddenly joined it and changed Google's mind.

google was targeting the wrong crowd with wave, had they made a sell to the business crowd this would have some serious clout, people in product development dream for the kind of functionality google wave had and in fact pay large sums of money for products that didn't even come close

google should have rolled it out to the business world first then figure out a consumer orientated use for it...

Figured this would happen.

Lol I remember when this was dubbed as the "Outlook killer"

Guess that never happened.

It would've worked a lot better if they could've integrated Gmail into Wave. If people could use regular email with Wave there would be a much smoother transition.

No i didnt. i never knew what wave was.

the problem was i couldnt find how to get back to my wave(s) and use them some more. it was like once i used it and left i lost it. kinda dumb to drop it so quick, it worked really well and had a lot of features that were really cool. if i could go to my main google page and see a link for my waves... i would have kept using it.