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Google Kills Wave

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Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by Twisol »

DTrejo wrote: post #15
BobbyH wrote: post #4

I 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

I still miss etherpad. I use some of the alternatives, but it's not the same :( alternatives: http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html

Google Docs seems to support a very Etherpad-like interface, but it's a little too bloated for what I used to use Etherpad for.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by ary »

That was fast. I remember watching the announcement (in person) and wondering who it was really meant for. At the time it felt like a solution in search of a problem.

What I did really like was the work they'd done on change-set propagation. Don't have a link to the session on hand, but it was quite interesting.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by spydez »

zandorg wrote: post #3

They blew it big time by hyping it for RPGs, which never went anywhere. Get the RPGers on board, perhaps, and you can succeed.

My little group of friends is using it for a DnD RPG. It's orders of magnitude better than the IRC chatroom we were using before.

It's going to be annoying having to go back to IRC.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by boots »

What suprises me is the short lifespan of the product to the public before killing it. While some of us may have had Wave invites for a while, it has been only been open to the public for less then 3 months.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by evansolomon »

jacquesm wrote: post #8

That 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 th…

They launched Wave in May of 2009. It's not like they yanked it all that quickly.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by zavulon »

Kudos to Google for understanding this and cutting their losses (relatively) early. I remember reading about their effort to cut down on useless products and focusing on the core search/AdWords/Gmail/etc, this is the effect of that.

I really hope Buzz is next.

Re: Google Kills Wave

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Post by kenjackson »

evansolomon wrote: post #28
jacquesm wrote: post #8

That 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 th…

They launched Wave in May of 2009. It's not like they yanked it all that quickly.

Microsoft announced, then released, spent $250M on advertising, and then killed a new phone in that time.
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