Wave goodbye
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- dMullins0
Google Wave had a lot of potential for project management and stuff. As mentioned, the problem was the roll-out, IMO. People are done with this preview bullshit. Either wait to release it, or do something else, because people don't have the patience for this waiting game BS anymore.
- 3030
Those scollbars are bloody annoying just like Google Wave itself.
I was reminded of its existence once saw the notification about the messege in the wave inbox.
I think that Google Buzz is next on the list. Most people use it as a plugin for twitter.
- PIZZA0
Sums up whats wrong with Google perfectly, it's a company ran by borderline asperges nerds and they'll launch whatever project they find interesting at the moment in a "beta" state with little consideration if it's actually genuinely of use to people and think any problems can just be fixed later somehow.
Just look at Buzz, rushed out of the door in a day to every user of Gmail with little consideration for their users. Just because some mouth breather at Google fancied making a Twitter clone that month.
"Google executive Sergey Brin said that by offering social communications, Buzz would help bridge the gap between work and leisure"I'm sure that sounds great for all the nerds on the Google "campus" because their work is their life and they barely leave the compound, however I doubt anyone else wants to have their work life smashed straight into their home life using their email address book to make those connections.
- dijitaq0
used it for about 10 minutes. never came back since.
- ukit0
- inv0
I am a developer and I didnt even fucking understand what it was about. That was their number one flaw...
- Tanj0
Ugh, I liked some of the ideas behind Wave. It was fun and interesting to try out for about 15 minutes.
But, I wasn't sure if my waves would become public or to who and there was no obvious way to find public waves except from my friends. It was like this strange grey area between a message board and email without any clear purpose.
I wish they would just make it an awesome email/message board app instead of making something that isn't really either.
- ukit0
- locustsloth0
this thread title reminds me of this song at 1:48 (what a fuckin terrible video)
- raf0
Look at this petition... looks like spam email harvester's dream and a complete mess to boot.
- ukit0
Basically it was a vision of future e-mail. The vision could be improved, but killing it off so suddenly seems almost as dumb as the way they rolled it out.
- ukit0
Well that's kind of what I meant, it was a mish mash of different ideas. Some had merit, other no. If you broke off idea by idea and introduced them one by one, they might have taken off.
- raf0
Oh, someone found a use for it...
http://savegooglewave.com/
- raf0
The problem was not the way it was rolled out.
The problem was it was shit, I said it when I saw it first.Nobody had a clue what it did, but surely too much.
It prolly tried to do what other tools did before, only in a more streamlined, clunky way, converting it into a "wall of internet".The UI was crap, not even your regular ugly-but-usable Google thing.
This, and the Optimus Maximus keyboard - shit concept, shit design. I was the only person on the planet NOT waiting for it and then like everybody else on the planet: I did not buy it.
- you are a really negative person, I am unsure if I have ever seen you respond positively.DrBombay
- Amen. But I can assure that you were not the only person "not" waiting for it.mnmlst
- Hahaha... I am actually a happy as Larry optimist. I'm just opinionated :)
raf - It just feels good to have been right against millions who saw future of interwebs in this crap :)raf
- ukit0
So, anyone got an invite?