PSA: Google Wave shutting down completely next year

[Crono]

Just got the email from Google that they are shutting down the entire service April 30, 2012.

I played around with it at the beginning, and it was pretty cool, but I never saw anyone else use it. It seems not everything Google makes is golden; I wonder if Google+ will end up the same way in a year or two.

Dear Wavers,
More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.
For more details, please see our help center.



Yours sincerely,
The Wave Team

 

[GodisanAtheist]

For all the reading I do I never really figured out what the hell Wave was supposed to be. Maybe I did at one time but then promptly forgot what the hell it was supposed to be about. Anyhow it won't be missed, or something.

 

[Crono]

For all the reading I do I never really figured out what the hell Wave was supposed to be. Maybe I did at one time but then promptly forgot what the hell it was supposed to be about. Anyhow it won't be missed, or something.

It was a web-based messaging client with collaborative features and the searching/history capability of Gmail.

 

[911paramedic]

First I've even heard about it. Great marketing team.

 

[DaWhim]

the learning curve is too high for this product for most people.

 

[Platypus]

and nothing of value was lost

 

[iCyborg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15853323

They killed a couple more. They start so many small projects/ideas that some are bound not to attract much attention, so periodically they clean the list a bit...

 

[Printer Bandit]

could have announced that google+ is shutting down. i don't think anyone would miss it.

 

[KentState]

Could not convince our project manager to try Wave for some our larger, communication challenged projects. We finally just went to shared Google documents which worked pretty well.

 

[rh71]

yeah g+ is really catching fire too.... it's definitely... going down in flames too...

 

[Bateluer]

First I've even heard about it. Great marketing team.

Really? There was some big hubbub around it when it launched.

 

[HeXen]

i never heard of it. although i have no interest in anything google besides Gmail and Search.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Really? There was some big hubbub around it when it launched.

That's because of the Google / Apple Effect. When either launches something the masses go a little crazy. I admit I signed up for an invite to the wave beta, looked at it and then thought... wtf?

 

[dwell]

Too confusing and performance was horrible. The Google+ death knell will be ringing soon enough as well.