Wayne Schulz

In a blog post today Google pulled the plug on their “never quite caught on” web based collaboration tool named Google Wave. Originally introduced in May 2009 as the hoped for successor to email – it touted features such as real time collaboration and multiple revision of documents.  Wave gradually succumbed to what appeared to be lack of interest by Google.

At a time when everyone worldwide was moving to the mobile web, Google Wave sorely missed a way to access data while mobile. All viewing and entry had to be done on a desktop computer.  In addition for a product that touted collaboration the use of groups was embarrassingly simplistic. Google Wave never supported the creation of groups of any kind. Rather it required you to setup a second group structure on another service called Google Groups and invite people who you wanted to include in a group on Wave to join the Google Group.

Confused yet? Apparently so was everyone else. Google Wave just never caught on. Development seemed to slow to a snail’s pace.

Today Google announced that enough was enough and Wave would be defunct at the end of 2010 as a public product.

Google says goodbye to Wave

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About Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz is a CT CPA and consultant. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, New York City, blogging, technology and searching for the perfect smartphone. He lives in Glastonbury CT with his two children. Contact Wayne by email at wayne@wayneschulz.com. (Important: We are not the manufacturer or seller of any items we've blogged so unfortunately we are unable to provide support or answer questions about them).