Last year I wrote several articles about Google Wave, a brand-new software development platform that provided distributed, peer-to-peer collaboration and conversation products. I was enthused about Google Wave for genealogy applications. Apparently a number of others shared that enthusiasm. Several newsletter readers wrote comments to suggest that the Wave could offer tremendous potential for genealogy projects, especially for group efforts when multiple people are working towards a common goal. This could be as informal as two cousins cooperating with their research efforts or as formal as a one-name society or a family society of 50 people or more working to document everyone of a particular surname or documenting all the descendants of a common ancestor.
Sadly, today Google announced that Google Wave is dead.
Sadly, today Google announced that Google Wave is dead.
Writing in the Google Blog, Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow, stated the following: "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. 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."
You can read more in the Google Blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
You can read my earlier articles about Google Wave at http://blog.eogn.com/.services/blog/6a00d8341c767353ef00e55065e13d8833/search?filter.q=google+wave
