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Google chooses to shutdown its Google wave service......

Created by : Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech  | 08 05 2010 07:30:21 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Strategy Execution(Strategy & Execution)
Keywords : google facebook wave google wave mark zuckerberg eric schmidt wwf sergey brin vic gundothra war with facebook
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This might be a big set back for Google, maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow it to be defined properly, but Google is saying today that they are going to stop any further development of Google Wave.

Wave, a real time messaging platform, was unveiled in May 2009 to an enthusiastic crowd of developers at the Google I/O event in San Francisco. It would “set a new benchmark for interactivity,” The product is part email, part Twitter and part instant messaging. Users can drag files from the desktop to a discussion. Wave even showed character-by-character live typing. It fully launched this last May.
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And while the service has many, or at least some passionate users, but didn't see the user adoption that they would have liked.

Do you think this shutting down of Google wave will have an impact for Google as a Brand?

  
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It will have an impact when Google is trying to take on Facebook with their new upcoming social networking site, for which  Vic gundothra is the head for the upcoming WWF(War with Facebook), but with so much fanfare and all Google wave was released and making it an opensource platform, where developers from all over the world were into developing it, but it was as said way ahead of its time...and didn't see users adopting this, even with their social network project which people are calling WWF (War with Facebook). But with this news the Google endeavor for new technologies will take a hit and Google as a brand is somewhat getting diluted with failures like these...
By Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech  08 05 2010 07:30:21 +0000
 
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Very sad to witness this , two clear things, the underlying tech of wave will never be dead but come out in interesting  forms in other products and services  two - it really wont  affect the brand "Google " because the reason isn't simply there . :) 

remember Google notebook ? web accelerator , or for that matter gears ? these things have really evolved today to amazing things like real time collaboration  in docs , and gears offline app concept  in HTML 5 . THe might be dead , but their legacy continues . 

I firmly believe R&D simply doesn't  end or die , it has its way of coming up ,

 
By Shaikh Mohd. Laeeq, Technical Associate R&D , ThinkLABS Technosloutions Pvt. Ltd.  08 05 2010 11:54:14 +0000
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Yes, I support your views, Leena.

There will be an impact for Google. They should not look Facebook as their competitor & should continue with Google Wave.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 08 05 2010 12:02:56 +0000
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That's kind of hard to say maybe they didn't give it enough time to see any real results. They should go back to the drawing board, reanalyze things and possibly bring it back with greater improvements.

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By Business Management Consultant, : I can provide you with Management Consulting & Counseling Services  | 07 02 2012 23:53:41 +0000
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I don't there will be an impact on Google as a brand, as Google is something very big to just get hampered by these small things, they dominate search and many other things, Its just this Wave phenomenon didn't pick up at all, though it created interests among the developers with it being open source and all, but didn't find enough users who adopted it. But surely there will be some plans to initiate few things of wave in future..but noting will harm Google's brand name.
By Kiran Kumar Reddy, Business Analyst, SAP  | 08 05 2010 13:38:46 +0000
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There wont be any impact, as WAVE is not known to mass consumers. However Google will see a down in coming days, because its trying to monetize everything and trying to capture media , telecom, internet and data space

 

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Karthick

 
By Karthick babu, Product Manager, Silk Media Technologies  | 08 05 2010 08:19:41 +0000
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