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

I never bought the hype, and it looks like no one else -- outside of every single tech blog -- did either.

Google Wave, 2009-2010 R.I.P.