What started as a web app for real time communication and collaboration that would like to mimic social networking sites has ended up in the Recycle Bin of Google’s database. Back at Google I/O 2009, Google announced Google Wave, which they hope to revolutionize how people communicate online. The awesome ability to view character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes — all happening within a browser.

But what Google hoped would turned into something similar to the successful Facebook, did not quite turn out to be. Due to the low reception and adoption, Google ‘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. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.’

SOURCE Google Official Blog