Well, you must have seen that one coming a mile away. While Wave was an interesting technology, it didn’t interface with any of Google’s other services. Even Buzz alerts me when some joker updates their Twitter stream which they so happened to link to Buzz.
The simultaneous collaboration features offered by Wave, with its streaming timeline display, were really impressive. However, what’s the point of real-time editing if the system never alerted the user that the topics were edited?
When participating as one of many bloggers on a site, we managed topics on a Google Spreadsheet. I keep several running Google Docs as notebooks for storing ideas, that I’ve shared with other collaborators. While I’m all about using the technology to improve my workflow and bridge communication, I find people still want their silos.
So, bye-bye Wave. Hello next big thing!
[Addendum]
Did you hear that Bloglines RSS reader is ceasing to exist as well? (link)
