Google To Shutter Knol, Wave, Gears

An anonymous reader writes "Google announced today on its official blog the impending closure of a number of its less successful services. In addition to retiring minor features like Bookmarks List and Friend Connect, Google has outlined a plan to close down Wave. The experimental communication medium will go read-only on January 31, and on April 30 they will shut it down completely. Also on April 30, Google will be changing Knol so that individual knols are not viewable, though users will still be able to download and export them until October 1, at which point they'll disappear entirely. Google Gears is also getting the axe, as is Search Timeline and the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative."

Comments

Re:They cancel products left and right

[Anonymous Coward]

At least Google did the right thing with Wave and made it open source:
http://www.waveprotocol.org/wave-in-a-box

Still, I'll miss the old girl. At least I have hopes that eventually I'll have a company-wide Wave server to replace Wikis (which have horrible access control) and email (which is just horrible).

Re:Welcome to the cloud!

[icebraining]

You could also run Wave yourself: Google has made it Open Source and it's now an Apache project: https://incubator.apache.org/wave/index.html

Re:life cycle of a cloud

[yo303]

Funny, but no, OP is correct. Clouds are condensed water droplets: liquid. Gaseous water is invisible.