Google Wave

Google Wave is the unsuccessful web platform designed to integrate e-mail with services of instant messaging (and other content) and also with tools for documents and joint work over them. According to representatives of Google, service first of all was focused on small business, groups of the pupils and colleagues working on joint projects.

Start of Google Wave was widely lit with the press and was followed by a large number of different references in Network - it is possible to call service one of the "loudest" projects of 2009. However in several months after start in general practically ceased to remember the project. The company announced the termination of development of Google Wave in August, 2010.

Features

Basis of Google Wave is the uniform personalizable web page consisting of the configured blocks which are "tapes" on which it is in real time broadcast both static (e-mail messages), and dynamic information (new messages in discussion, changes in documents and so on).

The main focus in service is placed on simplicity of exchange of the received content both between two users, and between groups - at any time the owner of this or that file can open access to it or "enter" discussion of other document, at the same time the binding to any certain web services is not required.

History

2009

On October 1, 2009 it is announced the beginning of broad testing of Google Wave. Access to Google Wave can be got only by the invitation.

In November, 2009 Google opened the Google Wave platform for third-party developers, having permitted them to create and start own services on the basis of the Wave protocol.

2010

Officially service is open for all users on May 19, 2010. Earlier, in 2009, representatives of the company said that they will open Google Wave only by the end of 2010.

On August 4, 2010 Google officially announced that it stops working on the Google Wave project. According to representatives of the company, "Google is not going to develop Wave as a separate product any more" though the code of this project will be open for all comers.

Despite loud start of Google Wave at the Google I/O conference in 2009, the company recognized that this service did not manage to win popularity at general public and to become replacement of other services of communication and joint work in Network.

Analysts note that this step of Google did not become big surprise - even after access to Wave was open for all comers in May, 2010 service could not bring together large audience - many users just could not understand for what this service is necessary and to find for it useful application.

"Last year on Google I/O when we for the first time showed Google Wave, the web application for communication in real time and joint work, it showed high standards of opportunities for web applications. The developers who were present at the hall got up and applauded. Equally and we rejoiced to the functions implemented in Google Wave in the company", says on the official blog by the Internet giant.

"But, despite all victories and a great number of devoted fans, Wave did not gain such wide circulation as we would like. We are not going to develop Wave as the separate project any more, but will support the website at least until the end of 2010 and we will expand its technology for application in other projects of Google. The central parts of the code are already open for all comers so our clients and partners can continue to develop the innovations begun by us", - representatives of Google said.

September 6, 2010: Service of social networks Google Wave which Google closed behind a lack of popularity recently will be turned into an application package for joint work in real time — the engineer of the software of Google Alex Nort reported in the blog. He promised that the examples of implementation of the client and the Wave server extended by Google in open codes will be expanded and transformed to the project with the open code under the name Wave in a Box.

Within the project the set of applications implementing all Google Wave functions and allowing to unroll the Wave servers on customer premise equipment will be created. In addition in Wave in a Box branching of conversations, improvements of client-server protocols, the API set and support of import of data from the online version of Wave will be implemented.

November, 2010: Apache Software Foundation supported the Google Wave platform, having created the project with the open code on its basis. Apache decided to save the concept of "wave" (wave) - the single message comprising all listed opportunities and modified in process of distribution between addressees. Within the Apache Wave project the Wave in a Box (WIAB) environment which is going to be integrated into own project management systems of development of Apache Software Foundation is created. For today WIAB consists of the server of a hosting and a federirovaniye of waves, the API set and functionally rich web client.

2012

Despite protests of users, Google continues to close Wave service systematically. Now it is transferred to the mode "only reading", and since April 30, 2012 access to it will be closed forever. Possibilities of service remained misunderstood wide audience. Recommended to export data from an account to the companies in order that they could be used further. Export is performed in the PDF format.

In August, 2011 more than 26 thousand users expressed the support to Google Wave on the website, about 750 more people supported the initiative in the blogs on Twitter service.

The Google Wave web platform had to integrate e-mail with services of instant messaging (and other content) and also with tools for documents and joint work over them. A basis of Google Wave was the configured web page consisting of the blocks which are "tapes" on which it was in real time broadcast both static (e-mail messages), and dynamic information (new messages in discussion, changes in documents and so on). The main focus in service was placed on simplicity of exchange of the received content both between two users, and between groups.