August 5, 2010 – It was launched among much elaboration more than a year ago at the 2009 I/O conference and was touted to be the principal development since the advent of e-mail. Google’s Wave, which created waves in the way people communicated online, was no doubt an enormous notion – but in spite of its convenience and facilities, Google has decided to shut down the service due to lack of enough patronage.
In a blog post declaring the decision, Urs Holzle, Google Senior Vice President for Operations said, “Wave has not seen the user implementation, we would have liked, and for the same reason, we don’t plan to persist in developing Wave as a stand-alone product.”
Keep it in mind that this does not mean that they are closing down Wave completely. For now, the account would still be available and Google has reaffirmed that the service would be operational through the end of the year.
Technologies used in the Wave would be integrated in to other Google projects.
For those who still use Wave, Google said that many of Google Wave’s features are already available as open-source components and they would enable users to migrate from Google Wave to “effortlessly release” their content from Wave.
Looks like, like us, Google too thinks the Wave was a bit too advanced for its time.
If you haven’t logged on to Wave for the past few days, you may want to take a glance at it again. It may not be there a few months down the line.
