Google Wave has been discontinued after a year of being ignored. From my own perspective, while I thought the idea had potential, it seemed to me that it imported all the usability problems of Google Groups, which (especially after using flawless Yahoo Groups) I really dislike. I never understood why we would want to put all our discussion into one single (Google-hosted) thread. But maybe Ray Schroeder sums it up best: "Wave is a complex tool. Those who took the necessary time to learn the tool, found it to be especially robust and useful for many situations. Those who could only invest ten minutes in learning Wave were frustrated and confused." Karim R. Lakhani, at Harvard Business, meanwhile, thought Google's decision to shut down Wave showed "strong innovation management" following the market's indifference to the tool. Discover Magazeine offers four reasons why people didn't like Wave.
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