Markus Zeller Blog » invite http://www.markuszeller.com Life is just a game Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:09:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Say goodbye to Google Wave http://www.markuszeller.com/say-goodbye-to-google-wave http://www.markuszeller.com/say-goodbye-to-google-wave#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28:09 +0000 Markus Zeller http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1534 Continue reading →]]> At the beginning there was a wave

In a former article I wrote some words about Google Wave, a service to do live and interactive co-laboration. It was highly coveted at the beginning, because people could only get in with a private invitation. Those invites were quite rare and everyone wanted to be in.

After about two or three months, Google allowed lots of invitations and then it began to get very slow and went to a very very very very …. slow performance and people lost interest.

At the end there is an end

Google said, it is going to die, because not enough people are interested in, but I don’t think it is the missing interest. My opinion is, that lots of people tried that in an early beta status where the performance was terribly bad and of course a lot of unacceptable bugs, with that you can not live – especially the malfunctioning gallery for my meaning.

That bad experience leads people to say no, that sucks and never try again, even if it is free. Also I think, that many people can not deal with that huge power of functionality.

I am really sad to see that great product dying, but I am happy about being a part of that, collecting good experiences, made some new friends and that Google will continue to use that technology in further projects.

Bye, bye, good old Wave!

Last chance

As long as it is still online, you could check out, what you would be missing. If you have no invite, I have got still some left. Leave a comment if you want to get invited.

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  • multiple accounts
  • auto refresh with countdown and caching
  • API limit counter
  • view followers by reciprocals, new followers and quitters
  • integration of twitter counter statistics
  • picture upload, URL shortener
  • spell checker

It is still in beta state, but if you want an invite, just leave a comment on this post.

Here is a picture how it looks like when logged in:

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