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From: Nicetameetya on 5 Aug 2010 20:20

http://www.techday.co.nz/netguide/news/google-waves-goodbye/17283/1/

Google Waves goodbye

By Gavin Ogden, Thursday, 5th August, 2010

Google Wave was billed as an ambitious web application for real-time
communication and collaboration but it never really took off like the
company expected.

"We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive
breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users�
lives," said Google in a farewell blog post.

When Google revealed Wave to developers, Urs H�lzle, Senior Vice
President, Operations & Google Fellow, said that some people in the
audience stood and cheered.

"But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen
the user adoption we would have liked," H�lzle continued. "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."

Parts of the code and tools used to power Wave are already available
as open source. "In addition, we will work on tools so that users can
easily �liberate� their content from Wave," H�lzle concluded.

Are you going to miss Google Wave? Or had you never heard of it until
now?
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