Today Google announced they are killing off Wave. Finally. Adobe Flash for mobile id dead. Finally.
I thought it was abut time I reviewed my year old Say Goodbye post to see what has changed since and what’s the state of play now. That post was (when written) going to be my last post, but – as I said things come and go in waves…
| Nov 2010 | Status today? |
| Flash will fade away | Adobe abandons work on Flash plug-in for mobile devicesAdobe “We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations”
Occupy Flash! - The movement to rid the world of the Flash Player plugin |
| Silverlight will go the same way | Not looking good |
| Google Earth is here to stay | Still good |
| As is Wikipedia | Still good – but needs money (and has a funny way of asking for it!) |
| though I must say | |
| I prefer h2g2 | Moved from the bbc to it’s own site now |
| Yahoo take two steps forward, three back | |
| MySpace, sorry, but following you lack | Dead, soon to be buried |
| America On Line – gone off-line | Who? Oh but they do own TechCrunch, which I like. |
| the phoenix has phizzled | |
| Ping just pongs | does anyone use that? |
| Syonara Symbian | Let it go Nokia! |
| Beebo’s a dodo | Any news on beebo.com? |
| IE, who uses that? | |
| Linux for servers and die-hards | |
| Less about the OS, more about the Apps | though iOS5 is good. |
| iPhone will just get better | Roll on number 5 |
| iPad and iPod will follow suit | |
| What happened to the old fashioned letter? | Maybe there’s a new lease of life? (Apple Cards) |
| now that point is mute | |
| Moores law will carry on, or double | |
| Palm – who? They’re in trouble | WebOS? – let’s move on? |
| CDs – a year or two | Maybe another year, or two… |
| DVDs – maybe five | |
| Digg dug its grave | digg goes down |
| Twitter will grow a bit more, flatten out and dive | Still going strong (but what proportion is good content?) |
| (unless they add something new) | |
| Facebook will get bigger but not forever | mm, so so. Still has it’s uses for now. |
| It is to the naughties what Yahoo was to the nineties | |
| Riding the peak of the wave | |
| Something else will come and it will fade away | |
| A Modern Messaging System? | Facebook messaging system – just annoys the c^#p out of me combining all your messages with one person in one stream. I avoid as far as possible. |
| Not impressed, not excited, 5/10, could do better | |
| Everything comes and goes in waves, except Google Wave – that just went | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15853323 |
| Waved goodbye before saying hello | |
| Social networks become anti-social networks – why not just talk to people? | Please do |
| Get outside and go | Go |
| Camping, get back to nature, move to the country (the next big thing?) | |
| Skype n Facetime – Video and VoIP good for us | |
| Google talk – only in the US | Still not in Australia! |
| Say hello to Graphene – that’s one to watch | It’s going to be big – keep watching! |
| Blogging is old hat (so why am I doing that?) | I agree. |
| Perhaps I should stop. | I tried. Maybe I will now. |
