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Why Google’s Wave failed

Google announces they will halt their \"real-time communication and collaboration\" portion of the site called Wave.

Federal News Network Staff

August 26, 2010 1:24 pm

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In a short blog post on Aug. 4, Google announced that it was pulling the plug on Wave, the “real-time communication and collaboration” Web site that the company launched last year. Slate says although it won a standing ovation when the company first unveiled the program last year, many early users reacted as I did when Wave went live-I was instantly turned off by its complexity and by the way it confounded online social conventions.

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