Yes, I had an invite and I honestly tried to use Google Wave. And no, I did not like it. In fact, I disliked it so much, I stopped following what is happening to it. I only found out today that Google Wave is RIP as of August 4. Well, farewell. It was useless and confusing and it is of little surprise that Google pulled the plug on Wave.
“Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice president of operations, posted on the blog. “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.”
I agree with Mashable that the most interesting about Wave, perhaps, is the spectacular rate of its rise and fall. It was easily one of the most hyped products of 2009, but within months of its launch, the buzz had almost completely disappeared.
