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These Predictions for 2010 Were Way Off

Matt Cantor — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:34:41 CST

The media gave us plenty of predictions for 2010, and plenty of them simply didn’t come true. AOL News lists some of the most glaring: Job growth will begin again. Newsweek predicted it unemployment would fall “below 9%,” but it was never less than 9.5%. Republicans won’t storm the...

Google Pulls Plug on Wave

Rob Quinn — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:34:23 CDT

Google is pulling the plug on its ambitious "Wave" communication project just over a year after its launch. The tool—which combined email, instant messaging, and social networking features to help users work together—was launched in beta mode last year with much fanfare. Invitations were selling for up to...

Google Wave Too Bloated, Complicated

Kevin Spak — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:13:00 CDT

Google Wave, the long-awaited chat/email/collaboration doohickey, is ambitious and sturdy, and packed with bells and whistles… and Twitter kicks its butt. See, Twitter’s main feature is simplicity, writes Farhad Manjoo on Slate, but Wave asks the world of users. It tries to replace email with “an entirely alien interface that...

Google Gives Select Few a Taste of Wave

Kevin Spak — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:30:06 CDT

A hundred thousand lucky beta testers today got their hands on the much-hyped “Google Wave,” a communication app that Google’s calling “what email would look like if it were designed today.” Wave operates a little like a cross between email, instant messaging, and collaborative wikis, allowing users to edit conversations...