Google Wave is Dead

Google Wave was an apropos name for the failed project. It made a big splash and just evaporated. It was not the most user friendly offering from Google. It was an uphill battle with Facebook and never took off. The real time communication project just didn’t catch on with most. Some of the technology will most likely be bastardized for future projects. Enjoy it for now till the end of the year when the lock and key will be thrown away for good.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. 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. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.