Thursday, August 5, 2010

Google Wave to be wiped out <- nice headline :)

May be of importance concerning Week 4 of Web 2.0 Adventure.  Came across this on twitter this morning.

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Computerworld - Joab Jackson - 1 hour ago
IDG News Service - A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking ...

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Wall Street Journal - Scott Morrison - 22 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on its "Google Wave" collaborative messaging service due to a lack of user ...
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PC World - 38 minutes ago
Google Drops Google Wave Only a year after its release, Google Wave has been ... Google Axes Wave Google says it will wave goodbye to its online ...

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Wired News - Michael Calore - 33 minutes ago
We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren't quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of ...
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New York Timeshttp://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/t_mini-a.png (blog) - Claire Cain Miller - 39 minutes ago
Google Wave was one of Google's most high-profile new services. Now it is one of its most high-profile flops. ...
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ChannelWeb - Rick Whiting - 32 minutes ago
Google Wave, the real-time communications and collaboration platform once touted by the search engine giant as the next big thing, ...
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Straight.com - Stephen Hui - 37 minutes ago
While Google Wave debuted to great fanfare and high expectations, many people never figured out quite how to use it. In a blog post today (August 4), ...
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TechWhack (blog) - 42 minutes ago
A sad day for the users who found Google Wave to be something that was astonishingly powerful for online collaboration. Google has announced that they are ...
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One News Page - 59 minutes ago
ddmeyer If there's some kind of moral for me in the demise of Google Wave, I don't want to know about it. http://bit.ly/9lhAsG 7 seconds ago Glinner Ah, ...
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ZDNet (blog) - Sam Diaz - 1 hour ago
Google Wave, the online product that was supposed to change how we communicate and collaborate online, was killed by the company today, a victim of slow ...


Haven't read any of these yet, but might be a good opportunity to dip the toe in and have a play while things are still active.  Not sure if you can still add accounts into it?

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