Wave Goodbye

posted on 10th August 2010 by Jon

Following the recent news that Google is going to let “Wave” slowly slip into the great web cloud in the sky, Techcrunch have written a really interesting post-mortem that outlines what went wrong and why Wave never fulfilled its potential.

Two things we’d add to this article:

1. Our own experience using Wave as a small digital company was also very mixed. With developers and programmers able to commit the time required in getting to grips with the system’s many benefits, it was the project management team that were perhaps not fully able to deploy Wave in the way it was meant to be used. As outlined in the article, I’d also attribute this to lack of time.

2. How amazing must it be to be able to work for a company who are so wealthy that they are able to hold a general philosophy of being quite happy to fail, so long as they’ve tried. Just imagine how comforting that must be…

Read the Techcrunch article here: http://tcrn.ch/axvV9A