Google: la fin de Google wave

Ce ne fut pas la révolution attendue...

"A number of theories have been proposed as to why Google Wave, like so many of the company’s products outside of search (cough cough, Google Buzz) didn’t work out.

I have one, too, of course: Google Wave’s editable, real-time conversation threading — which allowed users to go back to earlier messages (waves) and respond to them by injecting messages immediately following them vertically — was an innovative idea on paper, but in practice it didn’t make much sense.

That’s not how people read anything really, by jumping around from place to place, except maybe a “Choose Your Own Adventure” Novel.”

I think it could have worked had Google Wave simply had a primarily horizontal orientation, with responses to earlier waves appearing vertically below the original wave.

Still, it remains to be seen whether Google harvests any of the innovations of Wave for future products, perhaps even something in Google + Chat."

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/google-waves-goodbye-to-wave-via-gmail.php?ref=fpnewsfeed