tisdag 2 juli 2013

Google Kills!

... some of its own products anyhow.

Through the history of this creative company lots and lots of ideas have seen the light of day, but almost just as many has also been buried in the dark again. I recently came across this funny info graphic of different Google ideas that have been cancelled. These applications have been retired, either because of integration with other Google products, or through lack of support. Among the discontinued products we find a few noteworthy entries:
  • Google Buzz – social networking service integrated with Gmail service allowing users to share updates, photos, videos, and more at once. It let users make conversations about things they found interesting. It was released on February 9, 2010. Discontinued by end of 2011
  • Google Wave – Online communication and Collaborative real-time editor tool using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Development ceased on August 4, 2010. This product support is no longer available (turned off completely on April 30, 2012 by Google).
  • Shared Stuff – web page sharing system, incorporating a share bookmarklet to share pages, and a page to view the most popular shared items. Pages could also be shared through third party applications, such as Delicious or Facebook. Discontinued on March 30, 2009.
Question now is naturally: why does Google+ still exist? And when is the Google Car going to be available for the open market? Find the full graph below:

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