"Google Wave" Waves Bye-Bye
What was the Reason for This Demise?
Google Wave was initially released May 27, 2009. The product received a huge amount of hype prior to its official launch, May 19, 2010. It was hailed as the "cutting edge of social networking and the future of online communication" according to BusinessInsider.com. A "wave" was a message document containing complete threads of messages, including mult-media content that was stored within a central server. The waves were share with collaborators. These collaborators could be added or removed from the wave at any time. Any member of the wave could edit any part of a message or add participants. Each wave user was notified any time a change was made.
Google Wave was an innovation in the social media-networking field, introducing the idea of real-time communication and online collaboration on projects, including sharing media and other images real-time. There was a spell-check that worked not just by looking at the individual word, but the word in the context of the sentence. Robots were enabled to be able to check codes and other customer gadgets were included as well. The technology was innovative and the concept was good. So what happened?
Perhaps, this was just too much of a good thing at once. It seems that some of the privacy concerns that have plagued Facebook users and other social media outlets were also of concern with this application. Real-time collaboration seemed to be a little too intimate for the comfort levels of some business people involved. While it is perhaps a good concept for developers and programmers, not every aspect of business operates on this deeply collaborative level.
The collaboration wave introduced by Google Wave was perhaps a little ahead of its time. Future products will no doubt introduce the technology first seen here. By the time we are exposed to this technology again, we may very well be ready for it.
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32 Comments
Post a CommentI missed it! Oh well! Bye, bye Google Wave. Thanks for the info on this.
I guess my passive shrug at Wave's passing is the same as my response to it's arrival...probably why it failed
Oh yeah, I heard about Google Wave a short while ago... and its already gone!
Thanks, Janet!
Never really could quite understand the wave anyway.
Thanks for the info. Somehow I missed out Google Waves.
I don't even recall hearing about "Google Wave," but thanks for the info! ; )
Well, I completely missed the wave, so maybe that says something about the publicity of the product. If more people had known about it, more might have utilized it. As it is, like Sandy James says, "I won't miss it, because..."
Good report. I won't miss it because I didn't know it was there.
Phenomenal. Also, let me applaud your word art. You could make the phone book an interesting read.