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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.
The complement of Release Early/Often is probably Kill Early/Often. EDIT: spelling fixed, thanks!
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They launched Wave in May of 2009. It's not like they yanked it all that quickly.
It was announced in May 2009. It wasn't publicly released until three months ago ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005394-264.html ).
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I still miss etherpad. I use some of the alternatives, but it's not the same :( alternatives: http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html
Google docs is very similar to what etherpad used to be. All be it far less user friendly you can watch others edit and update in real time.
I, 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…
I blame it on never understanding the UI, the way it did things, or its usefulness. It's like a chat you can't delete things from, and everyone sees what you type and all your mistakes? And you can post pictures? I just don't get it.
The client always sucked and was, at the most generous, a tech demo of things the protocol/platform was capable of.
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Too bad you could never run it inside the firewall AFAIK.
All the protocols were open-sourced as part of the initiative. I think they envisioned a world in which inside-the-wall installations existed in the same way the companies have Exchange servers today.