Google just keeps adding new features to its Gmail service in what seems to be an attempt to dominate the world. Just in the past week we've seen a new Skype rivalling call option added to Gmail which proved popular on its first day and today a priority inbox emerged.
But one project which didn't go Google's way is Wave and this wasn't a tiny feature which sprung up on Google-mail overnight, but a massive piece of online software which Google were sure was going to revolutionise real-time communication.
Wave came with some powerful features like live spelling/grammar checking and automated translation of 40 languages. There had been a lot put into it just to see it crash and burn within a year of the launch.
Google shut the service down in August but in doing so, they did make some parts of Wave open source and also promised to create tools to help users extract their content from Wave.
But that's not all. Today in an attempt to reincarnate Wave, Google have announced that
Wave will be available "at least through the end of the year."
Plus tools to enable users to export their waves will be available "before the end of the year."
In what seems like a glimmer of hope for Wave users, Google claimed it's still looking into "ways to continue and extend Wave technology in other Google products," as well as "open sourcing more of code."
So if we never see Wave again in its full form we will certainly see bits of it make an appearance in Gmail at some point.
Source: mashable
3 thoughts on “Google try to rescue Wave.”
I hardly ever used Wave, but the few times I did, it was incredibly handy!
Let’s see as Google has promised by the end of the year if the Wave comes with new looks and added tools..We have to wait till then!
Its all about Google+