Google Stops Development of Google Wave

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Posted August 4, 2010 at 9:07pm by Shalom Levytam

Google has discontinued development of Google Wave due to a lack of user adoption, according to an official blog posting earlier today.

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.

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jirji - August 5, 2010 at 4:52pm

i didn even knew that it was open... i am now knowing that is beeing closed! and i was using google docs spreadsheets to colaborate with my college mates.. and now i dont have anywone to colaborate :|

giggyman - August 5, 2010 at 3:58am

The major reason why google wave failed was because google themselves restricted access to it from the very beginning. It was not initially offered to the general public as twitter was, and was presented as "invite only". Google wave will always be a much more innovative utility as opposed to twitter, but google will have to change its marketing strategy, and possibly make mobile versions marketed under the same umbrella brand of "google wave" products. It's really not too late!

giggyman - August 5, 2010 at 3:25pm

Cheers brother!

mauurenaa - August 5, 2010 at 4:01pm

I'm with you. Me and my friend start to use it at work. But there was no reason to keep using it if you were not able to invite more friend and colleagues.

giggyman - August 5, 2010 at 5:58pm

You're right on the spot mauurenaa. It's actually a good tool for enterprise, but Google got too giddy and excited with their little secret masterpiece that it ended up just being that -- just a secret. They still have a chance of deploying this through another perspective, maybe through a concrete specific industry. it's all such a waste of creativity.