Google Wave is dead

[natty]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/wave-goodbye-to-google-wave/

For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's basically email/IM/facebook/twitter/the entire internet rolled into one application. I remember watching their presentation from the IO conference last year and was absolutely blown b it. As a developer, looking at the things they implemented had me in almost complete denial - I simply couldn't believe they could pull off that kind of stuff in a web app. That was when I was totally convinced they had the best developers in the world.

My guess is that they're shutting it down because it does too much. I got my beta account and didn't really know what to do with it. I was waiting for more users to get on it but it never really happened. I guess it was just too ambitious for it's time. Maybe in another decade or so...

[Brandon]

Basically it did everything but not well enough to keep everyone around. For example, you can't usurp Facebook as it's become so large that it's the de facto social site; getting support for a competing site would be difficult at best.