Wave Goodbye to Google Wave Say hello to.....

2010 August 05
tags: Adobe · Google
by Big Mad Kev

From a tweet from Ray Camden I found out that Google are Stoping the Development of Google Wave, I didn't play with it too much as I have other things on my plate; but when I did play with it it seemed it could be a very useful tool in a spread out development team where you could have real time convos that someone on a different time zone could pick up in their own time and churp in if required without it being out of context.

So Google don't feel it worked out as well as they though it would, but I can only feel that what ever comes out of this will improve their other product offerings or indeed shape some of their future products.

We saw this with Macromedia Central, the fundemental idea was right but the execution wasn't quite there, but from that Macromedia / Adobe learned and now we have Adobe AIR which has opended the Market up of Desktop Software to anyone who can code HTML/JavaScript.

It will be exciting to see what comes out of the flames of Google Wave.

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  1. Cyber Jack
    Cyber Jack PERMALINK
    Aug 5, 2010 at 11:40 AM

    I think, we should wait two months, and goole started once more wave... But it intresting, because their always made good products...

  1. Lola LB
    Lola LB PERMALINK
    Aug 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM

    It was really useful for my partners and me - it allowed me to have a conference without having to go through calling up the video relay services in order to have them call my partners up and discuss stuff. We could share screenshots and discuss these. Now we're left without any services similar to this and it's going to be really difficult. Hope somebody can come up with something that works on this level.

  1. Andy Jarrett
    Andy Jarrett PERMALINK
    Aug 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM

    @Lola thats the problem I see. The people that got it, really got it and saw its use and potential (I was one). I think it was just to big of a paradigm shift in communication for some people to jump right in which was its barrier. This is also one time that I think their invite only scheme bit them in the butt. Wave was great when you could invite anyone but at the beginning it was limited to the lucky few who couldn't get the best experience out of it because of the small numbers using the app. Without that experience there was the normal chat on the blogs/twitter etc.

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