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BBM (software)
“Read receipts and the little D — you always let us know you cared.”
“Ahead of its time by exactly one inbox.”
Google Wave, announced on May 28, 2009, was a software framework for real-time collaborative online editing — an ambitious attempt to merge email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking into one web-based platform, with conversations that could unfold synchronously or asynchronously. It offered contextual spelling and grammar checks, automated language translation, and other extensions. The preview release e
The honeymoon was brief: on August 4, 2010, Google announced the suspension of stand-alone Wave development, intending to keep the site running only through the remainder of the year. The project found a second life as Apache Wave after the Apache Software Foundation adopted it as an incubator project in 2010. It was finally discontinued on January 15, 2018, leaving behind the memory of a protocol that dreamed of rei
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“Read receipts and the little D — you always let us know you cared.”
“Point, shoot, learn. It taught our cameras to read the world.”
“The big canvas with the little stylus habit, gone but still drawing applause.”