Wave Goodbye to Google Wave

The majority of FirstFound Blog readers won’t remember this, but back in May 2009, Google launched a service which would change the very world we live in.

Rather than relying on email, instant messaging and Skype, we’d instead need only one single all-encompassing communications tool.

Google Wave.

Now, less than two years later, Wave is being quietly shelved.

And as someone who signed up for the Wave Beta, I can explain why.

It just wasn’t that good. There were very few advantages to Wave over email, instant messaging and the like, so there was nothing to entice users into taking it up. Other than novelty, which by June 2009 had all but worn off.

And a communications system with nobody to communicate with, is the most pointless invention imaginable.

There’s a lesson to be learned here. Don’t waste time on things that there’s no market for.