No one caught Google's Wave

Google has announced it will cease development of Google Wave as a standalone app.

Much ballyhooed when it was first released last year, Wave featured unprecedented collaborative tools such as live typing (you could watch as the person on the other end of your conversation misspelled words and then hit the back key to fix them), drag and drop file exchange and conversation playback.

The consensus among early adopters was, "Cool! But what do I do with it?"

Apparently, nothing.

Google will maintain the Wave site through the end of the year and promises the technology will still live. But the Wave never caught on.