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Google announces that Google Wave is to be no more, amongst reasons cited are that it hasn’t gain the traction Google has hoped for. This is hardly surprising for me, Google Wave is just too complex for most. It tries to be everything and failed to stand out.

(It’s time to wave goodbye.)

Update on Google Wave

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. (Source: Google Blog)

RIP. And thank goodness I didn’t explore the Google Wave API much.

I used to have a page at GeoCities. I don’t even know what it is. It probably is still under construction. Back then it was cool to put this yellow animated gif of the “Under Construction” sign. It’s like everyone’s favorite. Then after a while it become somewhat a cliché and nobody puts it anymore. Today, Web 2.0 still has it, it’s called Beta.

Anyway, GeoCities is shutting down:

GeoCities will close later this year

Why is this is question?

GeoCities will close later this year.

Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers?

We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year.
I’m a GeoCities customer. What’s happening to my site?

Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don’t need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We’ll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time. (Source: Yahoo!)

Previously Yahoo announced the closure of the Yahoo Briefcase service. Now it’s GeoCities. More is to come I believe. It’s reorganization time for Yahoo!.

I had my first web page placed online on Tripod. The then Tripod offer something like 6 MB I think, back then where there weren’t many free things on the internet, it was magical. I never understood the generosity of commercial establishments that time, and I couldn’t understand why would anybody click on the advertisements. But all good things come to an end, Tripod is to be closed. So is Lycos Mail. I remember I had Lycos Mail somewhere.

Lycos To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15

Troubled Internet company Lycos is shutting down its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod, the company is saying via emails to users that begin with “We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.” Both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009.

Both were early Internet services but have languished under heavy competition from better known and better financed rivals. Tripod has actually been around since 1992, and was bought by Lycos for a reported $58 million in 1998.

A new version of Lycos Mail was released in August 2006, but Comscore says it has less than half a million worldwide users and it’s nowhere near the top ten mail providers, which each have more than ten million users. (Source: TechCrunch)

By the way, my tripod site is still there by the way, with much of the layout already broken since I am using Google Chrome. I opened up the source and look at how I code things. And I actually used div tags and style sheets. That played a part for me in learning HTML. So how do you learn your HTML?