By Joab Jackson
IDG News Service - A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday.
"Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," wrote Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, in a blog post. As a result of the public indifference, "We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a stand-alone product," he said.
The company will maintain the service through the end of the year, and the technology will be rolled into other Google projects, Hölzle said. Some features are already available as open-source components, and Google will offer tools to let users "easily 'liberate' their content from Wave," he said.
Hölzle implied that Wave might have been too radical of a concept for mass adoption, despite the company's many attempts to explain it to the public.
Google wave was an enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded by a confusing user interface, that is all. It was the best of apps, it was the worst of applications.
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2 comments:
GW was really not all that practical & people just didn't get it. I remember when it rolled out, I was all pressed to get an invite & then excited to share my invites with friends.
After about 2 weeks, the shine wore off & I decided not to use it.
Good try Google but....
T, Google wave was an enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded by a confusing user interface, that is all. It was the best of apps, it was the worst of applications.
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