Google Wave: Google to cease Wave communications platform

Google Wave: Google to cease Wave communications platform.

Internet giant Google will cease to develop Wave communications platform, which had aimed to liberate people from the constraints of traditional email. Google will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. Google’s announced today it would pull the plug on the Australian-developed tool. Wave was the innovative of Google Australia’s Lars Rasmussen, its innovative way, allowed people to communicate in groups. At one stage much-sought-after invitations to join the platform were being traded for $US70 on eBay. In a recent interview, Rasmussen said Wave had suffered significant teething problems. “We had a lot of interest after we first showed a demo and then when we got it out into peoples’ hands there was a fair bit of disappointment because it didn’t change the world overnight.