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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.
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]
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 ...
The use of Google Wave would give the gadget multi-user and permanent storage capabilities. For example, scores could be stored in a Google Wave hosted permanently by Google at no cost to the user. As of early 2013, Google Gadgets were deprecated in Google Spreadsheets. Shortly after, they were removed from all spreadsheets. [1] [2]
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]
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]
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 ...
Since the protocol is open, anyone can become a wave provider and share waves with others. Like email, communication is possible regardless of provider.For instance, organizations can operate as wave providers for their members, an individual can run a private wave server for a single user or family members, and an Internet service provider can run a wave service as another Internet service ...