{"id":159,"date":"2010-08-06T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-08-06T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T03:01:21","slug":"the-end-of-google-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/the-end-of-google-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Google Wave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I can&#8217;t believe <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-20012698-56.html?tag=mncol;txt\">Google is discontinuing Google Wave<\/a>. They claim people weren&#8217;t using it and didn&#8217;t know what to do with it. I&#8217;ll tell you what&#8230;it is really a pretty good work and team coordination tool. We use(d) it all the time to post and edit to do&#8217;s, issues, status updates for a small team of consultants working on projects together.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wasn&#8217;t perfect. The worst thing was that you couldn&#8217;t edit using an iPhone&#8230;you could append new information but you couldn&#8217;t add a comment right where it belonged or delete or strikethrough something that you completed. (Apparently, this is hard to do technically&#8230;I have the same problem with Evernote.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Google is saying that everyone is using Buzz instead. To me, that is like saying you don&#8217;t need email because everyone is on Facebook now. Sure there are some similar functions but Buzz is one of those annoying, primarily play-baby, time-wasting, teen or under-employed person thing that assumes we all have nothing better to do than let strangers and acquaintances know which starbucks or jamba juice we happening to be hanging out at.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yahoo seems to be pursuing a similar strategy &#8212; they are all lurching after the social media bandwagon. Honestly, I don&#8217;t see a whole lot of difference between Twitter and CB radio in the 70&#8217;s. The big internet\/computer companies, Google, Yahoo, and even Apple are too easily lured by the mass market. I liked it better when they led the market and, instead of giving us novelty apps, gave us really useful things like word-processing, email, databases&#8230;hmmm&#8230;guess I shouldn&#8217;t complain about Microsoft. Maybe the worst part is that, since it is a free service, I don&#8217;t really even have grounds to complain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe Google is discontinuing Google Wave. They claim people weren&#8217;t using it and didn&#8217;t know what to do with it. I&#8217;ll tell you what&#8230;it is really a pretty good work and team coordination tool. We use(d) it all the time to post and edit to do&#8217;s, issues, status updates for a small team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-fads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FCNy-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}