It is time to say goodbye to Google Wave, now that Google officially announced to stop the development of Wave promising to maintain the unique web collaboration tool until the the end of the year 2010. To clarify this: Google Wave is not dead – yet. As many of Googles efforts in social tools the service runs as long as Google wants it to. Other discontinued tools are Google Answers, Lively and Dogdeball.

In the last months a lot of people wrote about why Google Wave failed. I think the mayor failure was to promote Wave with a big bang on the Google I/O conference 2009, followed by personal invitations. As many others I subscribed to be invited, looking forward to test Wave. Weeks later the invitation code showed up in my mailbox. I was pretty pissed off by Googles product policy and so my first attempt was to find out what does not work on Wave. I found a lot of errors, unfulfilled promises and the user interface was difficult to understand and adjust.

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Yesterday I found this amazing video, music performed by Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. (watch it on Youtube). Visually it is a fresh cover of the Tron style mixed with 80′s and freestyle rap elements. The lyrics are also great, an abstract of todays mindset. Quote:

We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re believin’ in the proof, we’re believin’ in the truth
We’re believin’ in each other, not you, you, you

Stories (you with the tall tales), how many stories (so many tall tales)
We climb the structure (you scale the ladder)
You build it higher (you make us madder)
We take our aim (so now we’re bearin’ off) You perch above your nest ( _ in your charms)
The stories in your head (it’s a crazy bald head)
That’s what got you dead

Bang Bang Bang!

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