Google Wave

Das ist bedauerlich. Im offiziellen Blog heißt es:

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, 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.

Business Insider hält es für eine richtige Entscheidung:

But give Google credit for quickly and soundly getting rid of them when it’s clear they don’t work.

Gina Trapani, Gründerin und ehemalige Leiterin von Lifehacker, beschäftigt sich seit dem Start der Alpha-Version von Google Wave intensiv mit dem neuen Kommunikations-Protokoll von Google. In einem Artikel für Fast Company führt sie aus, warum Wave jetzt langsam nützlich wird:

Templates für verschiedene Aufgaben:

When you launch Wave, in the far-right column, Wave encourages you to start a new wave based on templates tailored to specific tasks. Click on the Discussion, Brainstorm, Task Tracking, Meeting, or Document buttons to start with a wave template that’s formatted correctly with appropriate widgets for the job.

Email-Benachrichtigungen und einfach zu installierende Erweiterungen machen Google Wave ebenfalls nützlicher.