"No more development"

Well, a while back I blogged about Google Wave and how it wasn’t turning out to be quite what Google intended. Seems I was right, as TechCrunch reports today.

I still haven’t figured out what Google Wave was for, or how it could best be used. Without users it is pretty much useless and as it turns out, Google have been disappointed by the take up of their actually brilliant technology and as such are stopping development of it. They’ve opened up bits of the code to allow developers to continue where they are leaving off and say it will stay live – but they won’t rule out shutting it down in the future.

It is a shame, because when you look at it it’s a huge step forward. Perhaps it was just ahead of its time, who knows? Either way, Google are done with it. Can developers make it more user friendly and appealing to the masses? Maybe, time will tell, but again, without users it’s useless.

I hope Google doesn’t get to down about this and continue to innovate. They do it SO well.

Google are, apparently, developing a social networking platform to rival Facebook by, erm, copying Facebook.

Clearly Google Buzz hasn’t worked, Google Wave died on its arse and so now we’ll get Google Me. But how is copying Facebook going to CHALLENGE Facebook?

Ok, Google are running scared of FB at the moment and clearly want to make some impression on its 500 million+ users but this can’t be the right way?! There’s no sense in it.

They could simplify FBs still ridiculously complicated privacy settings, they could import some of their other functions – risking complicating the format in doing so – and they will, no doubt, make it a much prettier place to be. But if it’s still going to be an FB clone I’m really not seeing the logic.

Still…I WILL check it out, I WILL use it and IF it turns out to be another Google flop I WILL abandon it just as quickly as I did Buzz and Wave.

Make or break time for Google on the social media front, either way.

Google Wave-d bye bye?

Seriously, anyone know? I downloaded it, installed it, used it, realised no-one else was using it rendering it pointless, and haven’t looked at it since.

Do you use it? Or know anyone that does? For God’s sake, let me know, because Google invested a LOT of time and effort (as did the likes of Mashable! and other commentators) into it and I want to know what it’s FOR!

Help me out…leave a comment or two if you know anyone getting some use out of Google Wave.

Without doubt the best Google.co.uk homepage I’ve ever seen! Celebrating, I believe, Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. Yesterday the Google.com homepage had Big Bird’s legs in the Google Doodle. Class.

So this is what happened to Twitter today, causing trouble the world over. To lighten your mood, post-Twitterpocalypse…