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		chii 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009) not to mention that i think there was some google+ initiative back then (i might've gotten the timing wrong tho). There's some office/department political machinations in the background, and the fallout of that ruined wave.

angry_moose 8 months ago [–]

Might be thinking of Google Buzz (hey, remember Buzz!?). Google+ was a few years later (2011)

chii 8 months ago | [–]

hah, you might be right! It was something to do with requiring all these new features being delivered/tested at google to include some social thing.

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