RIP Google Wave...
"Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. 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. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave." (Official Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html)
Obituaries:
"Google Wave, Poorly Understood and Underused, Dies In Infancy" (Fastcompany.com)
"Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow it to be defined properly, but Google is saying today that they are going to stop any further development of Google Wave." (Techcrunch.com)
"Goodby Google Wave, We Hardly Knew You." (DailyFinance)
"Google's attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled." (CNN.com)
"The move isn’t much of a surprise; adoption never seemed to materialize for Google Wave — even after it dropped its invite-only status — as users struggled to find meaningful use cases for the service (though we found a few)." (Mashable.com)
"It's dead, Jim. Google Wave, the much-hyped collaboration tool that Google released in beta form just about a year ago at its developer conference, is dead." (Examiner.com)
"Google is known for daring to invest in new products, services and features and being willing to walk away from those not living up to its hopes." (AFP)
"After opening to the public in May, Wave failed to attract the user base Google anticipated. Instead, when faced with a drastically different paradigm for interaction, the public decided to stick with the familiar: e-mail, IM and Facebook." (Switched.com)
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