Google are axing Wave due to insufficient usage - from the blog:

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.

Doesn't really surprise me, I don't think the Internet was ready for something like that, though I can sort of see what they were trying to do.

I never used it beyond an initial poke because I never felt it offered me anything I didn't really have already, though I know a few people here were using it occasionally?

Looked at it for about ~3min when it was first launched.

Havent touched it since.

Farewell QGL wave!

This is what happens when you stretch a javascript application to it's limits. It ran like an absolute dog.

THat was one of the limitations we noticed, yes. Once a wave got to a certain size & you had 7 or 8 people editing multiple bits of it, the thing would randomly die, lose changes or do other weird things.

I never even looked at it. I'm not about to lock up my information in a proprietary Google application

This is all Google Wave was good for:

I'm a big google fan, and I tried wave, but it just wasn't useful for anything that I did. I'm not overly surprised by this news.

I tried using it as a remote collaboration tool, but we had no end of problems understanding how we could do things, whether other things were possible etc etc, so it kinda just died.

meh. didnt see the point of it.

I like that Google tries and is happy to let something fail and cannibalize it for other apps.

There were none. It was a bad attempt to get into the social networking world.

I thought it was more a go at something like SharePoint and the whole collaboration thing rather than social networking.