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Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative online editing. Originally developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2009, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it was renamed to Apache Wave when the project was adopted by the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project in 2010.
Citing slow adoption, Google (GOOG) announced Wednesday on its blog that it is halting development of Google Wave, an innovative email application which combined elements of live chat and real ...
Google bombs date back as far as 1999, when a search for "more evil than Satan himself" resulted in the Microsoft homepage as the top result. [8] [9]In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by Hugedisk Men's Magazine, a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherfucker" to a site selling George W. Bush-related merchandise. [10]
Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool developed by Google. [1] It replaced Google Wave and was integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail. [2] [3] Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. [4]
Also, Google Wave is not fully open-sourced and a lot of it (like its whole UI) is, and will remain, Google's property. Apache Wave (Wave-in-a-Box) demo servers are already different enough from Google Wave and right now it doesn't make much sense to have a page named Apache Wave, but where 99% percent of the information is about, and only ...
With the advent of Google Wave (now Apache Wave), gadgets became able to have persistent storage and multi-user capabilities and better state management. Gadgets using Google Wave in this way were simply known as 'Wave Gadgets'. For instance, a game written using a Google Gadget could use Google Wave technology to record a list of users and ...
Similarly, Joseph Gentle who is a former Google Wave engineer and an author of the Share.JS library wrote, "Unfortunately, implementing OT sucks. There's a million algorithms with different tradeoffs, mostly trapped in academic papers. […] Wave took 2 years to write and if we rewrote it today, it would take almost as long to write a second time."
On 16 August 2013, every Google service went down for five minutes; that is from 22:52 to 22:57 UTC. The outage caused internet traffic to drop forty percent worldwide. [9] Between 23:51 and 23:52 UTC, 50–70% of requests to Google received errors. It has been estimated that the blackout could cost Google around £330,000. [9]