Google Wave is dead – Long live the web

Google Wave is dead – Long live the web

Google Wave

I’ve been using Google Wave for quite some time now but I admit, I couldn’t find many active users and the use was very limited. A communication and collaborative discussion tool without many users is useless. Google Wave has not seen a wide spread user adoption and due to the same reason, Google has decided to stop further development on Google Wave. The Wave site will be up till the end of the year but at the end of the day, the project is dead.

Web has seen so many interesting and exciting solutions that could not find a commercial success. Google Wave will always be remembered for being super-innovative and I’m sure we’ll see the same concept growing up in one or more of Google’s other products to make them even better.

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Google Wave – Finally got my preview account

Google Wave – Finally got my preview account

Thanks to my friends who got me an invite to a Google Wave’s preview account. I’ve been so excited since I saw the Google-Wave video at Google IO 2009 (see below).

As the video show-cases, Google Wave is certainly an evolution of email, IM, social networking and will definitely change the way we communicate today over the web. My preview-accoutnt is pretty cool but is not much of an action right now as not many of my friends are on the account yet.

All of you who have Google Wave account already, please add me up and lets Wave!

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