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G oogle Wave officially fizzled yesterday, following just over a year of exaggerated hype and underwhelming performance. From a practical standpoint, ending Wave development makes a lot of sense; why invest work hours and resources into an end product that isn’t being adopted and hasn’t met expectations? However, as we noted yesterday, the speed in which Wave (and we promise, this is our last pun) wiped out is worth reflecting upon. Why did Wave fail and how can Google learn from this experience? Wave started its life amidst a ton of hype, which, we’ll admit, Mashable played a role in encouraging. Buoyed by a brilliant demonstration at Google I/O in May 2009, the anticipation for end users was already in full effect by early summer. I recall last June, six or seven weeks before I started work at Mashable, having dinner with some friends who had just attended a local user group meeting that included an overview of Google Wave from some of the attendees of Google I/O. The invite-only pub...

Here is a collection of 25 Most Interesting Computer Facts featuring Funny Computer Facts,I nternet facts,virus facts and more Computer Fun Facts. 1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women 2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'! 3. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer . 4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet. 5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month. 6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web . 7. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages . 8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator *. 9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. 10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online . 11. The ave...