Last year everyone was talking about the Google Wave… it was the hottest ‘beta’ invite around.  There were hundreds of blog posts from all sorts of tech luminaries about the Google Wave and how it was going to revolutionize communications… rich media, text, video, audio, websites… all together.

About two and a half months ago, Google announced that the Wave was going to die… probably after the end of 2010.

I wrangled a Wave invite last year.  It was cool… but not cool enough to actually use.  And I guess that was why nobody bothered to really use it.  It didn’t revolutionize email communications.  It didn’t make a wave… in fact, it was barely a ripple.

But here is the big question…

When we look back at this a couple years from now, will we see the Google Wave as a trans-formative communications revolution?

I don’t know that we will… or won’t.  But I think it is just as possible that Google’s Wave will be an idea ahead of its time as it is to be just a bad idea.

Take a look back…

Related articles

• Google Wave: Failure Can Be Great (lostremote.com)
• Wave good-by to Google Wave (inquisitr.com)
• Google Wave to Rise Again on Its Own (mashable.com)
• Google Wave: why we didn’t use it (arstechnica.com)
• Death of Google Wave Clarified [Google] (gizmodo.com)
• Users Still Able to Catch the Google Wave until 2011 (searchenginejournal.com)