[ Srđan Pavlović @ 25.11.2011. 12:31 ] @
Citat:

Dear Wavers,

More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.

For more details, please see our help center.

Yours sincerely,

The Wave Team

© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Wave account.
[ maksvel @ 25.11.2011. 13:41 ] @
Tja.. od joše jedan down the drain... A i Buzzu je odzvonilo.
[ Zoran Milovanovic @ 25.11.2011. 13:53 ] @
Steta, meni je bio jako koristan, steta sto ljudi nisu shvatali njegov znacaj. Bedak.
[ Ivan Dimkovic @ 25.11.2011. 14:57 ] @
Kad se setim samo googasm-a koji je cela San Francisco ekipa IT "novinara" imala oko Wave-a... game changer, kao i svaki drugi .beta projekat (citaj: svi projekti) iz Google-a. Dok covek to cita prosto ne moze a da se ne zapita sta ti ljudi piju... Ubica emaila ybt... na kojim drogama moras biti...

Na svu srecu, ratio propalih Google projekata u odnosu na uspele je sve veci i veci, pa i Bay Area IT-press googasmi polako opadaju... kao i ljubavni partner koji vec duze vreme nikako da "perform-uje", pa na kraju i euforija pukne :-)

Za ovih 10+ godina, Google je odlicno "ubo" pretragu i reklame, mail, mape i android... ostalo je manje-vise groblje permanentnih .beta mentalnih isprdaka i "projekata" sirocica koji su verovatno nastali kao rezultat sloboda koje daju developerima - iliti, dev. hobi projekti raspisani u slobodno vreme koje im je dato na poslu.

Nista protiv sloboda, daleko od toga, to sto Google daje svojim developerima slobodno vreme da pisu sta vole je vrlo lep gest i motivator - samo po svemu sudeci, osim tih sloboda apsolutno nicega drugog nema kada ti ljudi nesto napisu :( Skoro svaki projekat im upravo izgleda kao prva verzija koju tim developera napise koja u normalnom svetu ne bi trebalo ni da se pojavi van firme, dok se ne uradi kako treba - ne samo tehnicki, vec i marketinski, operativno (platforme, support, GTM i tako to...)... da ne pricamo o samoj ideji stancovanja me-too projekata (Wave, Google+, Talk, ...) samo da bi menadzment bio zadovoljan da imas odgovor na Twitter, Facebook ili sta god...

Cak su i njihovi ljudi poceli to da kapiraju...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...google_does_not_get_platforms/

Citat:

The dangers of social platforms have been illustrated yet again, when one of the Mountain View Chocolate Factory's Oompa-Loompas made public a long and detailed rant against his employer on Google+.

The thesis of the post, attributed to Steve Yegge, is that Amazon can build platforms and expose services far better than Google: “We don’t understand platforms. We don’t ‘get’ platforms,” he writes.


Drugim recima, gomila me-too dev. projekata u slobodno vreme, onda im okace ".beta" tag i puste SF novinarsku ekipu da malo dizu hype...

Ali avaj, nesto im bas i ne ide. Sokantno :)
[ Zoran Milovanovic @ 25.11.2011. 15:23 ] @
^+1

Ima Google jos par korisnih/upotrebljivih projekta (za mene, hehehe). Ali uglavnom pucaju u prazno. Oni bi sve da kupe, a kada naidju na nesto sto ne mogu da otkupe, onda raspisu klon istog.

Sve mi se cini da Google jednostavno hoce da bude sve. Internet = Google, odnosno Google = Internet. Nadam se da se to nikada nece dogoditi.

Preteruju, hoce sve, previse su greedy, nadam se da ce doci vreme kada ce krenuti da slabe..


BTW. Ni pretraga im vise nije toliko superiorna nad ostalim pretrazivacima, nego jednostavno imaju tu poziciju, zive od stare slave.
[ Ivan Dimkovic @ 25.11.2011. 15:41 ] @
Yep.. stara slava.

Sta da se radi, moraju da se sire, to im kazu shareholderi... a nemaju gde. Zato ce da stancaju gomilu me-too klonova u nadi da ce da se uguze jos negde.

Klasicna prica velike firme koja je postala #1 na svetskom nivou u necemu... tesko je posle toga postati #1 u jos necemu, a imas pritisak iznutra da to uradis.
[ bigvlada @ 26.11.2011. 16:36 ] @
I MS je hteo sa MS networkom da stavi znak jednakosti između Microsofta i Interneta, pa znamo kako se to završilo. Neće to uspeti ni Google-u ni Facebook-u.