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Google what? Yes, yet another Google product that you might have not heard of is shutting down. Google Wave was launched to much fanfare and it was heralded as the app that would revolution communication. But one year later it is shutting down.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt tried to paint the picture that it was a sign of the company’s innovative culture to take big risks to find breakthrough products.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is famous for saying (about Google products) that, “the day they announce them is their best day and then after that”, they basically go nowhere and end up being shut down.
Google is becoming more famous for shutting down products than for keeping them in production. Take a look at Google Buzz within a week it fizzled out and it is a matter of time before it too is shut down. Then there is Dodgeball, Mashup Editor, Google Video Uploading, Google Catalog, Google Notebook and more.
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So what? They thought they had a killer product and they realized it was not that great. They decided to cut their losses and move on. Good for them. They have plenty of money to throw darts at the wall to eventually find the bulls eye.
Comment by skywalker — August 5, 2010 @ 2:39 PM
Dear fellow bozos at web-guiled, please stop trying to be so snarky and smarmy with the tone of your articles, and just do your damn job and report the news. In this piece for example, I would have much preferred you spent the time describing for us what in the heck 'Google Wave' was supposed to do in the first place rather than just slamming it. You guys act like a bunch junior high school students trying to put out your first newsletter. If you want to editorialize a topic, at least do it under the appropriately named column or page and call it an 'editorial'. Thank you and good luck.
Comment by bozo_de_niro — August 5, 2010 @ 10:25 PM
Haha! Throwing darts at the wall is probably not the best way to be innovative!
Comment by Ed H. Chi — August 5, 2010 @ 11:44 PM
Whats wrong with trial and error? Babe Ruth had an infinite above average amount of strike outs….
Comment by spydr — August 6, 2010 @ 3:27 AM
I applaud their sense of innovation! Even if a product like google wave fails to be a success, much is recovered and recycled into other products (ex: drag & drop attachments into/outof gmail ). I see it like a sales aproach, for every 100 doors you knock, you land one huge profit.
Comment by wachaca — August 6, 2010 @ 5:20 AM
They should try the innovation process called Outcome Driven Innovation developed by Strategyn. It has a very high success rate for new prodcucts introduced into the market .
Comment by Michael M — August 6, 2010 @ 5:31 AM
Great people are not afraid to fail publicly. It's always easy to point fingers and criticize, but those people never do anything. Be the man in the arena, rather than the one who is just laughing at other people's mistakes.
Comment by Master Seducer — August 6, 2010 @ 5:35 PM