15 days before Hello says Goodbye…what’s next?
Since I started this site on May 12, 2008, there have been over 250 comments asking Google not to shut down the HELLO instant messenger.
In an attempt to help get our voices heard, my plan is to print out all the comments on June 1st and have them fedexed to Google (attention the Picasa/HELLO) department. Be sure to get your comments in before then!
Printing out 250+ comments would take a lot of ink and paper, so in an effort to minimize the environmental impact, I plan to have the petition ecoprinted. Which means I basically plan to use a service I found on the web that does environmentally responsible printing with recycled paper and vegetable oil inks.
It would be great if this digital petition and blog were enough to get the attention of Google, but sometimes it takes more.
I also wrote an email to idealab, the company that sold Picasa and Hello to Google in 2004. I suggested that they buy back HELLO from Google and continue their original vision of creating a super simple photo sharing software. I also suggested that they think ahead of the curve and launch the first subscription based instant messenger service. HELLO has the best interface and it seems the demand may be there. In these past couple of weeks, I’ve realized that I’m not alone in realizing that I would pay money to use the HELLO service.
If anybody from Google is out there reading this, feel free to contact me for an official comment.
Lupe Fiasco’s album came out recently and track 15 seems to be a great soundtrack for the savehello.org cause. It’s called: Hello/Goodbye [uncool]
June 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
As I wrote in my Open-Letter-comment, I too will miss Hello.
But I also am looking for alternatives for Hello.
Nothing will replace the simplicity of Hello, but what if Google will not reward the cry-out from this SaveHello-community?
What are you going to use for private peer2peer filesharing?
I hope we can use this commentsection for some suggestions.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Just go to http://www.gigatribe.com and download use their service instead.
Forget Google and use something you know is not going to close.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
@Kevin
Gigatribe isn’t even close to what Hello offered.
Plus, there’s no guarantee that gigatribe won’t close. Especially if the largest online company in the world closed a service.
There’s no way of knowing if any service will shut down unexpectedly or not. That’s the whole meaning of unexpectedly
November 12th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
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