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Google gives up on Wave

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This is a pretty huge disappointment: Google’s admitted defeat on Wave, citing poor uptake, and plans to cut it loose later this year.

“despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.”
– Urs Hölzle on the Official Google Blog [link to post]

I’ve found Google Wave to be very useful as a meeting and collaboration space for working with people hundreds or thousands of miles away from me, but I guess not enough people saw just how useful it actually is. It does have a pretty steep learning curve initially, so I can see why a lot of people probably didn’t bother, or didn’t get what it was for. I guess it’s back to IRC, IMs and Campfire for now.

Strange POP3 traffic from Google?

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I just read a daily email from Logwatch to find some very strange messages…

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.208, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.210, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.211, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.212, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.213, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.214, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.216, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.217, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.218, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.219, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.220, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.221, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 4 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.225, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.227, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 3 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.228, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.232, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.234, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.235, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.236, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 5 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.237, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.238, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.239, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.240, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.241, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 2 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.244, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.245, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.246, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.248, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.249, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=209.85.198.251, lip=my.ip.ad.dr: 1 Time(s)

Okay, so let’s list the strange events here:

  • A whole bunch of sequential IPs are connecting to my POP3 port (not necessarily in order, perhaps Logwatch is just picking them out that way)
  • The remote machines are connecting, but not even attempting to authenticate (log in), they’re just disconnecting
  • The IP range is apparently owned by Google

So… what’s going on here, exactly? Anyone able to shed some light onto this?