End of Google Wave

No more wave riding for Google wave users!! Yes, Google has announced the full stop to the 'wave' yesterday. On his statement Mr. Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow, said, "We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects."
Last year Google launched Wave at Google I/O. The response was highly positive. After the launch of products like GTalk, Orkut, the expectations were high from another Google web product. It was meant



for real time communication & collaboration among people. Google wave consisted of some cool sophisticated features like, easy drag n drop of files from desktop or other parts of the web app,live typing, easy mass sharing of files like presentations, pictures, managing schedules etc. It was a all-in-one. It had a blogging sort of feature in it. It got a look of an advanced e-mail.There was something for everyone. Stephanie Hannon, Product Manager of the Google Wave Team wrote on a blog , "Wave has been used in a great many interesting ways. It's clear from the invaluable feedback we've received that Wave is a great place to get work done, in particular for teams working together on projects that involve lots of discussion and close coordination."
Inspite of all this, this project has failed to fascinate the users or Google fans. A probable reason for that is the existence of other projects that perhaps less efficiently do a lot of jobs that wave do in a combined form. Products like Google BuZZ has become more acceptable to the users.
No doubt, the lack of reponse, have compelled Google to take such a decision. But Google CEO, Eric Schimidt put up a positive response on the matter. He said,  “Remember, we celebrate our failures. This is a company where it’s absolutely okay to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that,”e celebrate our failures. This is a company where it’s absolutely okay to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that.” He also indicated that in future components & ideas of wave will be implemented in the products Google is yet to launch.