Google Wave a wipe out

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 05 August 2010 11:49

Business IT - Technology

Google's Wave communication and collaboration web app has proved short lived.

A little over a year ago, Google introduced Google Wave. It was an attempt to rethink messaging and collaboration from scratch, without the baggage of existing approaches.

While it was enthusiastically received in some circles, Google Wave just isn't being used widely enough for the company to persevere with the project.

"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," said Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president, operations.

In line with its "data liberation" policy, the company will develop tools that will allow users to extract content currently stored in Wave.

Hölzle also noted that the central parts of the Wave code have already been made available as open source.

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