{"id":112,"date":"2010-08-05T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/05\/google-waves-good-bye-to-google-wave\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:43:46","slug":"google-waves-good-bye-to-google-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/05\/google-waves-good-bye-to-google-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Google waves good-bye to Google Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a>In a surprise move, Google announced it plans to shut down Google Wave<\/a> at the end of this year.\u00a0 Google Wave<\/a> combines character-by-character live typing with saved messages to create an instant-messaging-meets-email technology great for distance collaboration.\u00a0 Wave is more conversational than Google Docs and allows for dragging and dropping images and video into the text.\u00a0 Much of Wave’s code will continue to be open source and available for incorporation into other applications.<\/p>\n

I am honestly surprised that Google has given up on Wave so quickly.\u00a0 Wave adoption has been slow but that is common with new technology.\u00a0 Google search and Twitter took several years to go viral.\u00a0 If Google has an idea for a bigger, better application, I would have expected the company to continue promoting Wave until the new app was ready for release.\u00a0 More likely Google’s expectations for Wave were too ambitious<\/a>.\u00a0 Google did not do a stellar job marketing Wave and what Wave can do because Google didn’t understand itself how Wave would fit into our lives.\u00a0 Google relied too much on third-party developers to create add-ons that would make Wave an “I can’t live without it” tool.\u00a0 Remember how Google released Wave to developers<\/a> before anyone else last year, encouraging them to create add-ons?\u00a0 When the Wave “killer apps” didn’t materialize, Google realized it still didn’t know how to position Wave in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a surprise move, Google announced it plans to shut down Google Wave at the end of this year.\u00a0 Google Wave combines character-by-character live typing with saved messages to create an instant-messaging-meets-email technology great for distance collaboration.\u00a0 Wave is more conversational than Google Docs and allows for dragging and dropping images and video into the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}