Stypi founders have a plan to reinvent Google Wave (video)
Google Wave was a colossal flop. So why are the founders of Stypi trying to revive the idea of Wave-style collaborative software?
We caught up with the Stypi team at VentureBeat’s San Francisco office and asked them exactly that. This Y Combinator-backed startup is revisiting the concept of cloud-based, collaborative work. It enables multiple people to work on the same document together in real time by sharing a link amongst themselves.
This is familiar ground … Continue Reading
Google+ is no Buzz or Wave, says trend data
Google+, the social network Google launched three weeks ago, is off to a much stronger start than the company’s failed Wave and Buzz offerings, according to a Google Trend comparison of the services built from an analysis of search trends.
“It’s early yet, so I don’t think that Google+ has ‘peaked’ in terms of news or search by any means (if it’s successful),” writes Discovery’s Razib Khan, who first reported on the data. “But it’s … Continue Reading
Google Wave to ride again as open source Apache project
Open source programmers who have been working to keep Google Wave alive hit a significant milestone today by submitting their open source Wave code to the Apache Software Foundation, The Register reports.
After a rocky launch and apparent difficulties in convincing users to try it out, Google announced that ended development on its much-hyped Wave collaboration tool back in August. Google Maps and Wave creator Lars Rasmussen has since joined Facebook.
Most well-known for the … Continue Reading
Messaging startup Threadbox finalizes sale to MySpace
Threadbox, a startup that helped users organize their communication, announced today that it has finished a deal with MySpace, whereby MySpace will acquire some of its technology and hire some of its team.
We broke the news in July that talks were underway between MySpace and Threadbox. The Threadbox service shut down in early August, and cofounder and chief executive Michael Cerda (pictured) just published a blog post talking about the deal and apologizing to … Continue Reading
Google sinks its Wave collaboration tool
Google announced in a blog post today that it’s ending development on its Google Wave collaboration product and may shut down the site completely next year.
The announcement isn’t a huge surprise, given the tepid response to Wave as a product (as opposed to the hype that greeted its announcement). Back in December, we semi-seriously listed the Wave team as one of the “startups” whose dreams Google has crushed in 2009: “So by overhyping Wave, … Continue Reading
Google Wave, a novel collaboration tool, takes on Microsoft Office, Outlook, Hotmail all at once
Google announced in a blog post today that it’s ending development on its Google Wave collaboration product and may shut down the site completely next year.
The announcement isn’t a huge surprise, given the tepid response to Wave as a product (as opposed to the hype that greeted its announcement). Back in December, we semi-seriously listed the Wave team as one of the “startups” whose dreams Google has crushed in 2009: “So by overhyping Wave, … Continue Reading
Can a "Head of Social" help Google fend off Facebook?
Google announced in a blog post today that it’s ending development on its Google Wave collaboration product and may shut down the site completely next year.
The announcement isn’t a huge surprise, given the tepid response to Wave as a product (as opposed to the hype that greeted its announcement). Back in December, we semi-seriously listed the Wave team as one of the “startups” whose dreams Google has crushed in 2009: “So by overhyping Wave, … Continue Reading
