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It's about time: Google kills Wave

By | August 4, 2010, 4:33pm PDT

After 15 months of hype and disappointment, Google has decided to pull the plug on Wave, its real-time collaboration platform.

Wave was an awesome platform, but I just never found it useful in the workplace. It was fun to watch other people as they type messages and upload photos, but it was not a productive tool.

Google should seriously reconsider releasing products to the public without letting other people outside the Googleplex test them.

I was actually rooting for Google; I wanted to see Wave make it into the enterprise, but I knew in the back of my mind that it would fail.

One good thing to come from wave though…

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City.

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Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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RE: It's about time: Google kills Wave
Joey1058 7th Aug 2010
AFAIK, Wave wasn't much good beyond the enterprise. It was touted as a networking tool, then as a social tool, and I saw it as neither. I had no need of the service, personally, and neither did the general public. And of course Google is going to wrap it into some future iteration of social, as though we "really need this". To which I say "why?"
try again, but, it has to by much more intuitive.
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Google's Kin experiment
LBiege 4th Aug 2010
ChromeOS is the next vaporware to flop.
Seriously, ZDNet did an extremely poor job of trying to explain what was so revolutionary about Wave. Like Donnie I never did figure it out.
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RE: It's about time: Google kills Wave
Andrew Mager 5th Aug 2010
@tonymcs No one can figure it out happy
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AFAIK, Wave wasn't much good beyond the enterprise. It was touted as a networking tool, then as a social tool, and I saw it as neither. I had no need of the service, personally, and neither did the general public. And of course Google is going to wrap it into some future iteration of social, as though we "really need this". To which I say "why?"

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