Google Kills Wave
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Google Kills Wave
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Re: Google Kills Wave
#2oh no but at least I can cross checkout google wave in detail from my todo......
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#3They blew it big time by hyping it for RPGs, which never went anywhere.
Get the RPGers on board, perhaps, and you can succeed.
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#4I feel bad for the Etherpad guys, who as I understand it, sold AppJet to Google to work on Google Wave: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977015
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#5I, for one, am very dissapointed by this. Even worse I feel somehow partially responsible. I have been a huge proponent of Wave in theory, but even after getting into the early beta I just never found myself /using/ it. I blame this mainly on it lacking the social graph I cared about.. But I thought I could just bide my time and in 5 years it would have taken over.
I am starting to feel like I will have to deal with "MY REPLY IN RED" company chain email threads from hell forever now.
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#6They blew it big time by hyping it for RPGs, which never went anywhere. Get the RPGers on board, perhaps, and you can succeed.
Kingdom of Loathing players were using it back in March, though they seem to be a more intellectual playerbase compared to most RPGs.
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#7They blew it big time by hyping it for RPGs, which never went anywhere. Get the RPGers on board, perhaps, and you can succeed.
It's a widely accepted rule of thumb that no technology can succeed without RPGs being involved. ?:o
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#8That didn't take very long now did it? I never even got around to checking it out.
Aren't they afraid that the next product they announce in this fashion will be met with some scepticism from potential early adopters, who might think 'I'll wait for a bit to see if it stays', which in turn will lead to a cycle where it gets harder and harder for google to release new stuff and get it adopted?
edit: would be nice if they open sourced the code.
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#9unfortunate. it was a good product, for the right market, but it was overhyped and it underdelivered.
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#10Based on the initial reactions to the first Google Wave demonstration by a few non-tech friends of mine I thought Google Wave might gain the necessary product adoption and momentum. I erred and so did many other folks.
I applaud Google for their willingness to stop investing precious development resources in something that looked like the next big thing but turned out to be a great product without consumer approval.