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Google Kills Wave Development
We've mentioned several times over the past two years Wave, Google's ambitiously multi-channel, perhaps plain overwhelming entry in the social media wars. Now, reader mordejai writes "Google stated in its official blog that they will not continue developing Wave as a standalone product. It's sad, because it had a lot of potential to improve communications, but Google never promoted it well, denying it a chance to replace email and other collaboration tools for many uses."
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, for homosexuals, 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.
Which idiots thought it would be a cool idea to make email and instant messaging into an immersive experience? Some of us actually want to be away from the keyboard ACTUALLY HAVING SEX (which makes me a tiny minority on /. ) rather than sending deep thoughts like OMG! WTF! BBQ! FTW! to other morons.
I don't need a more immersive experience with my computer.The only ones who do are those not getting laid. Ever.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
Sorry, you lost me. You've got two finite verbs in one clause there - "stated", and "is" or "has".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
How the fuck did random idiots like you end up thinking Wave was something their peabrained little heads had any business touching?
Go back to playing Team Fortress dummy. Leave the developer tools to the grownups, k?
Fucking stupid, fucking useless and nobody will use it. Said just after I tried my first wave out.
Why was I right?
Because it was a terrible bit of software, in both concept (nobody wants collaboration at that level - if they did every content creation desktop app would do it), and in implementation.
Just awful.
If you read TFA, is says things like "we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives" and "we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science."
Earth to Google: a computer scientific achievement does not a user experience make.
Really. It's not that hard. Just becase you can putting together bunch of crazy-ass techno doesn't means people will flock to your door any more than I should be president of the United States if I can solve a Rubuik's cube in under 10 seconds.
Pizza-munching geeks. It's crap like Wave that reassures me in my job as a user experience designer.
Maybe you use some of your use experience and apply it to the 1990's era webpage that your home page link is set to. Or perhaps you may not of heard about one of Google's products that has not shutdown yet...it's called "Google sites"!