Lol Farmville II but yeah my thoughts exactly! Plus the math calculation of the derivative of the second curve which represents supposedly the success of a product is bogus
On Aug 5, 9:52 pm, Joel Dietz <[email protected]> wrote: > I expressed myself more fully in a blog post: > > http://www.titaniainc.com/wave/what-was-google-wave-what-could-wave-b... > > I think what we are witnessing is a disjuncture between the developers > working for Google, many who have been making an incredible effort to push > things forward and foster the community, and Google's clueless upper > management, which can't even seem to remember that it promised the developer > community anything a year ago and wants to use all of the cool features of > wave primarily to improve existing products. That said, I think they are > sensitive to the fact that there is an active community which is precisely > why they letting the media handle things and avoiding the harder questions > about their fulfillment of previous commitments. My guess is that they > simply hope to turn off the site as soon as possible and hope that the media > attention fizzles and moves on to the next greatest thing (e.g. Farmville > II). > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Brian May > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > On 5 August 2010 08:28, Joel Dietz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/wave-goodbye-to-google-wave/ > > > > Kind of strange to actively encourage development by independent > > developers > > > and promise future code releases while privately planning to kill the > > > project... > > > It kind of irritates me the way Google went about this. They started a > > community effort to create something new and unique. They got this > > community effort, and things seemed to be happening. When we could > > start to see the light at the end of the tunnel, they decided to > > cancel the project. Instead of officially informing the community via > > their own discussion forums of what is happening, we first find out > > via the media outlets. Even then, in their official blog, they haven't > > acknowledged the contributions made by extensive community efforts - > > just some vague reference to "numerous loyal fans". Its like the > > community doesn't matter. > > > So I really think it was always seen by Google management as a > > commercial/proprietary product, despite the fact it was being > > advertised as a community effort. That is why it has failed. > > Alternatively, Google has shown they don't know how to run a community > > project. > > > They still haven't really explained what this announcement means. Will > > people lose data they have on Google Wave? > > > I would hope that wave can now be forked and developed independently > > of Google, with or without Google's help. First step, perhaps, should > > be to stop calling it Google Wave. > > > Even if Google did decide to change their mind and continue running > > the show (as other people seem to be suggesting), they would have to > > show some serious commitment (e.g. releasing all the code as open > > source). Otherwise I wouldn't be able to trust them not to do the same > > thing in the future, again. > > -- > > Brian May <[email protected]> > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Wave API" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-wave-api%2Bunsubscribe@ > > googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
