It’s official as of 8/04/2010 02:00PM.  Google has put Wave to rest.

“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.”

– Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow

I think Google Wave was a great idea and used amazing new technologies in our everyday browsers, but it wasn’t easy enough to use or understand for the average internet user.  I even had a hard time understanding it all.  I watched videos and was invited by friends to try it, but never saw a reason or an opportunity to use it.  I’m sure the hard core Google fans loved it and adapted to it quickly.

Google is keeping a lot of the technology they developed in Wave open source so programmers can continue the innovation they began.

R.I.P. Google Wave

 

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