Two of its microblogging services such as
Google Wave and Google Buzz have failed to have the desired impact.
In 2009, Michael Feldstein blogged that
Google Wave would fill the bill for many who sought alternatives to an expensive, high-maintenance LMS.
But its previous efforts ended in failure, with both
Google Wave and Google Buzz proving unpopular with users.
To create Google+, the company went back to the drawing board in the wake of several notable failures, including
Google Wave and Google Buzz, a microblogging service whose launch was marred by privacy snafus.
To deal with these factors, we explored several online tools that could allow us to collaborate on our project and bring it to fruition: Wikispaces, Manymoon,
Google Wave, DimDim, and Google Docs.
According to US- based technology columnist Matthew Ingram, who writes for the popular blog GigaOm, " GoogleC* desperately needs an injection of social features, as we have written a number of times, since it has completely failed to get much going in that area with ventures like
Google Wave and Google Buzz.
Another notable example is that SAP is developing web-based components to give users access to its systems from
Google Wave, Google's new communication and collaboration platform.
Check out
Google Wave on YouTube at http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMYM-18BkIQ&feature=player_embedded or this http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=p6pg xLaDdOw&feature=related.
Google Wave is one technology that can be used to track and generate ideas and permit a more inclusive perspective of wikis and other collaborative projects.
It wouldn't really matter if it's intranet-based--for example, on Microsoft SharePoint--or an open application like
Google Wave.
Last month, Google drowned Wave, its one-year-old project to revolutionise collaboration and real-time communication on the web: "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked."
Google Wave enabled users to manage their total communication on the web - instant messaging, emailing and social networking.
Save
Google Wave is online at www.savegooglewave.com.
