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Posted by JasonE
Aug 4, 2010 at 09:46 PM
I so wanted to like Wave. It just never worked out for me and the people I tried to use it with.
JasonE
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 23, 2011 at 09:44 PM
Hereby the announcement received today by Wavers around the world:
Dear Wavers,
More than a year ago, we announced [1] that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.
If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave [2]. There is also an open source project called Walkaround [3] that includes an experimental feature [4] that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.
For more details, please see our help center [5].
Yours sincerely,
The Wave Team
[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/walkaround/
[4] http://code.google.com/p/walkaround/wiki/ImportingWaves
[5] http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?answer=1083134
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM
I might be wrong but I thought Google’s main error was that the Wave didn’t show up in the Google header alongside mail, calendar etc. I did want to use it but I kept forgetting that it existed. They should have made it accessible from Gmail or somewhere like that.