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Update from google’s official blog.

Update on Google Wave
8/04/2010 02:00:00 PM
We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops.

We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.

Posted by Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow"

I am really wondering why google is going to drop such a wonderful project. Ofcourse, as expected no one is using the wave.

3. Google could have integrated all these to their existing webmail interface. Because no one wants to open another tab just to communicate through wave.

I was about to call my ISP to fire them for slow connection for the last 2 days. By chance I noticed some news about underground cable disruptions near italy, which might be causing this slowness.

This cable is a consortium of 16 companies (including Airtel and Tata Communications) and carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France.

So guys, don’t get agitated if your net goes slow in the coming days until the repair is complete.

I have been thinking for a while, why bandwidth cost in india is very high when compared to US, which in turn is diminishing the reach of online world to INDIA.

Labor and resources are cheap here in India, but why ? Are we importing something for cost to shootup like this? The answer is, we are are simply wasting Bandwidth and paying more for it.

Why do we host a website in a server in US, while most of its customers are in INDIA?.

If we need to host here, we need more reliable datacenters here. So why there is not much datacenters here ? The answer would be bandwidth and connectivity. Since bandwidth cost is high here, we try to host servers in US, which will again increase the network traffic to US. Its a chain process and I am pretty sure we are not in the right path, which will end in a permanent solution.

ISPs here cannot reduce their cost because international bandwidth is a bit costly for them too, which restricts them to reduce bandwidth cost beyond a limit. But they are charging the same for local traffic and international traffic, where local we have got TERABYTES of bandwidth and international which is limited. It is like paying ISD rates for all calls.

My opinion as a solution for this problem is, our ISPs should start providing bandwidth based on traffic, whether it is local or international. They can give local bandwidth at very cheap prices, even cheaper than US and international can remain the same. Once this is accomplished, more datacenter startups will emerge here and there would be great difference in the international traffic.

Also there is much difference in response times,

To a Website Hosted in US

time=326 ms

To a Website Hosted in India

time=51.7 ms

So now I think If we get such a plan from Any ISPs here, I could even go for a startup in this field , What do you think ?