Comments on: RIP Google Wave

By: pankajunk

pankajunk — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:21:43 +0000

They could have run with it a little longer. It was a great product, but its lack of structure and ill defined use cases made it a turn off, especially for businesses. It was like a lego set, you can do wonders with it, but you need help to get started.

Pankaj
http://www.hyperoffice.com

By: bobmacneal

bobmacneal — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:08:52 +0000

Google Wave was an engineering triumph – a creative mash-up of tried and tested technologies.

However, usability was never improved. User experience was never demonstrably considered by Google. Most users just didn’t get it.

My Posthumous Retrospective on Google Wave
http://is.gd/e4IxY

By: beckie66

beckie66 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:18:00 +0000

I am not that surprised. I tried to get friends and family to test it with me back in November, – not many takers. A few of us messed around with it until the end of January, and we haven’t touched it since. It is confusing, and for our needs, YIM or AIM does the same thing. I think it is a great product for an office, but it was pretty convoluted from the start. Goodbye, Wave.

By: monkatron

monkatron — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:59:13 +0000

I fooled around with Wave briefly; like many others I couldn’t figure out what it was or why it was.

By: dspringfield

dspringfield — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:30:08 +0000

Google Wave could have been spectacular as a standalone application. I really liked it, but I wanted a bit more. It needed to be a little more intuitive. I wanted to be able to drop images and files directly into the sessions. It would have been nice to be able to highlight a portion of the conversation and right click to display selection properties such as who originally posted the content, if/when it was edited and by whom.

By: sorebuttcheeks

sorebuttcheeks — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:20:35 +0000

I’m afraid i’m one of the people who has no idea what google wave was all about. http://steroid.blog.co.uk

By: Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:07:06 +0000

Surprised they shut it down so fast. I figured Google could afford to let this one hang fire longer, build momentum.

Still, classic example of Google’s problems w/ social engineering/interface design. Too many features, requiring too many IQ points to access.

By: Niall O'Malley

Niall O'Malley — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:01:13 +0000

Indeed, it was on the cards for a while. After talking to the social media community, I put together seven reasons why it failed: http://bit.ly/bXsYMe. Comments / responses appreciated.

By: Phillip Gibb

Phillip Gibb — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:04:19 +0000

Well I am not surprised. I guess you can’t get everything right. Or the world is not ready for this yet.

Phill
http://synapticlight.com/

By: timgill123

timgill123 — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:27:07 +0000

I really like wave, I know it has it’s issues but I thought they would get sorted. My biggest frustration is that I couldn’t get many other people to use it. I’m really sad about this.

By: R.E. de Leon

R.E. de Leon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:17:10 +0000

Aw nuts. I thought it was a really really great idea. Except it took too long to get everyone else to figure out when and how to use it. :S Kinda reminds me of those early tablet computers. Lotsa potential… before its time. :S I’ll continue using wave for now if they’re not pulling it. Someday I hope similar collaboration software will pick up users more quickly.

By: richardsrussell

richardsrussell — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:55:06 +0000

And here you had the chance to be the 1st to say “Wave goodbye” but missed it. By now you’d only be about the 200th.

FWIW, I’ve never heard of this product before and didn’t have a clue what it was used for (nor was your article at all forthcoming at helping me figure it out), so this looks to me like this week’s winner of the gold medal in monumental shruggery.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:10:37 +0000

I liked wave. I think they introduced it too soon it was way too buggy and confusing. I was hopingit would catch on

By: Douglas Wolk

Douglas Wolk — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:00:02 +0000

I don’t know, I think I am too!

By: Allie Townsend

Allie Townsend — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:57:55 +0000

I am the only person upset about this.