Google Wave Seems Kaput

In what is a very sad bit of news for me as a huge fan of the platform, Google has posted today that the end of Google Wave is near as user adoption is not what they wanted. It’s understandable but very sad. I enjoyed using Google Wave not just for gaming, but as a collaboration tool on RPG projects. Moving my games back to forums, particularly games which took advantage of Google Wave’s intra-document commenting features to run different characters in separate but concurrent locations and plots (a lot of which I’ve been doing recently) will be rather annoying and inelegant. Google Wave was really a perfect storm of features all of which I grew happy with and accustomed to. I can only hope that the technology, when eventually folded into something else, still resembles Wave enough that I could go back to using it again. It’s been fun, it’s been useful and I mourn its passing.