Wave Goodbye to Son of FriendFeed

Thursday, August 5. 2010

Wave Goodbye to Son of FriendFeed

Overhyped, overspecced, and....over:

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.

No, it was just over-egged - like Friendfeed before it.

The lessons were there for the learning, but Google didn't. As we noted earlier, Social isn't yet in their DNA and this was Social Networking by Numbers.

What is encouraging is that Google is prepared to experiment, but even more that it is prepared to kill it.

Update - Dave Winer makes a good point - when Google elsaed Wave, it was "Invite Only" anfd oogle controlled the invites so you couldn't invite your friends. Worked for hyping Gmail etc, but not for systems where the value is having your social network on the same system. Talk about not "Getting" Social Media.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Social Networks at 00:18 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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