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Google Wave is dead. Here are your haiku eulogies.

Posted: 08/05/10 12:27 PM

We asked our Twitter followers to write eulogies for Google Wave in haiku form. Here are some of what you came up with:

@pjwaldron - Google Wave now breaks/on lost shore of much-hyped tech./What was it again?

@Csweet - Project Management folly / apologies to invitees / Google Wave is Dead

@Kikapp - Really? Google wave? / What’s that? Is it a soft drink? / I thought they did search.

@MikeRylander - I never tried it / Once thought about trying it / Made sandwich instead

@Truman206 - Just like “Aloha” // a wave can mean “Hi” or “Bye” // this time it meant both.

@Fuzzynoodle - Early adopters! / Scramble, boast, I am so cool / What the frak is this?

@Marmotry - After 20 years / Google may have just killed the / surfing metaphor.

@Truman206 - Be fair to Google, / Even doing “Wave” at games / wasn’t cool for long.

@Marmotry - I’ll send you a wave. / Oh, first you need an invite. / I don’t have any.

@Ringeddragon - Such a brief lifetime/ you were here, then you were gone/what were you again?

@stevehuff - Bird skulls on white sand || The absence of splashing blue || Google’s Wave, dry, gone

@IntNorbertCon - Google wave shows us / redesigning everything / doesn’t always work

@Marmotry - Goodbye Google Wave. / You showed me some of Google’s / privacy settings.

@Fuzzynoodle - Redundancy, yes? / Why reinvent the tech wheel / I Wave bye bye, fad.

@IntNorbertCon - Here comes Google Wave / lots of bells and whistles and… /Oh, wait, never mind

@Lbredeso - What is it good for / nothing, a proof of concept / Google Wave is gone

@Wjcstp - Google pushed out Wave / despite failing the best test / elevator pitch

@IntNorbertCon - Like small southern town / Wave’s “Welcome” and “See you soon” / Printed on same sign

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There’s a vote coming up this week in Washington that will have a big impact on how you use the internet, what’s available to you, how much faster you’ll be able to get things online. On Thursday, the FCC is expected to open up unused parts of the broadcast spectrum, a lot of people call it “white space”. This is space that was positioned to be something of a buffer between television stations but such padding is proving less essential since the conversion to digital TV.

On today’s show, we talk to Glenn Fleishman from Wi-Fi Networking News and The Economist about how the spectrum works and what kind of new space we’re talking about. We also check in with Tim Wu from Columbia Law School about the companies that will look to use the space and what it all might mean for you and me as internet consumers.