Sometimes things are better off dead than alive. Google introduced Wave, it’s real time collaboration tool with much fanfare at the Google I/O conference last year but has now announced to stop developing Wave “as a standalone project.” Google Wave was one of Google’s most prominent new services. Now it is one of its most prominent flops. The reason for it is quite obvious – not enough... 

When Google launched Wave back in Oct 2009, I had written an article on how Google Wave could be the ultimate email killer. Some of our readers felt that I was right, some thought I was not and some others felt that Google wave is actually designed to be a Facebook challenger! For them who haven’t tried Google Wave yet and wondering what it is — “Google Wave is a really nice idea... 

Judging by the tweets I’m seeing and what I’ve seen from friends and acquaintances, some of those 100,000 Google Wave invites are starting to actually arrive in in-boxes of real people, and so also the concept of Google Wave, as trying to redesign or redefine email (or cause the so-called death of Email communication). If you are new to the latest hot topic that is buzzing allover the internet...