It won't be long.

[RonS]

Seems to be a little eerie.

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[alexander]

2 members

[JuanV.Soler]

and 102 guests ¡¡
that´s a lot of expectation

what do you think is going on today in Google-@Last ?

[Gaieus]

Maybe some of the guests are also members - they just don't feel it worth logging in...

[JuanV.Soler]

yes, i´m sure of that
i think we all expect something
Really this Google crew is hopeless in communication even holding the most powerful machine to do it.
(in the smithy house,..wood)

[not registered yet]

As far as Google's reluctance to talk about what they're up to, they seem to have a flat policy not to talk about that stuff. I believe they're being cautious--perhaps overly so--about repeating some of Microsoft's mistakes. You may recall that in the early days of Windows, Microsoft used to regularly issue press announcements about their great plans for the OS, along with estimated roll-out dates. When their plans slipped and they delayed software releases for months or even years, they took quite a huge amount of flack for it. I believe that's when the term "vaporware" entered the lexicon.

Microsoft's image never quite recovered from those days, and that was part of where they got their terrible reputation and low esteem among the public at large. I think Google's theory is that if they don't make promises, they can't break them.

In any event, the suspense is nearly at an end.

-Gully

Edited to correct misspellings. I know, who cares?

Poster-Gully Foyle

[lewiswadsworth]

@unknownuser said:

As far as Google's reluctance to talk about what they're up to, they seem to have a flat policy not to talk about that stuff.

Or else they don't care and aren't doing much. AEC and by extension 3D modeling is not part of their core search/advertising financial continuum. I've been worried about that since they bought @Last. I suspect that if the Google Overlords weren't so besotted with the science fiction novel "Snowcrash" they would not have acquired Keyhole (Google Earth), and they only bought and free-bied SketchUp as a quick way to fill GE with visual content.

--Lewis

Lewis Wadsworth

[Charlie__V]

@juanv.soler said:

and 102 guests ¡¡
that´s a lot of expectation

what do you think is going on today in Google-@Last ?

Looks like it's a Wrap..... T.O.D. 11:59.59999 6-4-2007
Edit: Wait...... Still Beating 8:01 6-5-2007

C

[lewiswadsworth]

Yep, 2007-06-05 9:07 AM EST I just received a private message from the old place.

Lewis Wadsworth

[RonS]

Here are the latest remarks I can find from anyone at Google.

Site Not Found - Discourse

(forum.sketchup.com)

[JuanV.Soler]

late news, as i can see:
http://forum.sketchup.com/showthread.php?t=81368&page=2

[John Sayers]

in reality it's probably 2 members, 2 guests and 100 google bots.

[Stu]

Probably right John
What I find hard to fathom is why, when firstly they were going to 'migrate' in 3 days, it is now taking the best part of a month?
Google are saying its taking so long because they want to get everything right
Yeah .....makes you wonder what they had in mind for their original move....

[tomsdesk]

Stu, my guess would be:

"Absolutely nut'n!"

[JuanV.Soler]

i´m confident
i think they´ll make it, fair enough

any bets

[Will03]

my bet would be that google would have opened one group to replace the entire forum, and then just shut down the other forums while they did the migration in the background.

i guess we did make a little difference...

[CraigD]

@will03 said:

my bet would be that google would have opened one group to replace the entire forum, and then just shut down the other forums while they did the migration in the background.

i guess we did make a little difference...

Yes, you all did make a difference. People listened.

- CraigD