Google Wave

First a couple of links for you:

http://wave.google.com

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/google-wave-mashes-communication-collaboration-together.ars

http://lifehacker.com/5272048/google-wave-is-what-email-would-look-like-if-it-were-invented-today

So google has given us a nice multi-month advanced preview of a new technology called “wave”.   It sounds pretty neat and I’m happy to be excited about it.  It seems rather similar to several “groupware” offering that are currently available but most of those require more patience/resources than I have the ability to produce.  I’m a little worried than “wave” will be nothing more than facebook2: the electric boogaloo.  I think that for wave to succeed as a technology long term (to achieve this “email next” they seem to want to claim) it needs to be an open protocol and allow for interoperable servers running on different networks (i.e. decentralized, it cant just be google; yahoo, microsoft and whoever else needs to be able to use this tech), much the way email does right now.  It needs to be scaleable, important functionality needs to be accessable on a multitude of devices e.g. cellphones, and operating systems.  It looks like most of this is in place, I’m excited to see it in action.

In the meantime I have signed up for sandbox access.  I kind of think there might be an opportunity to make a RPG platform on wave, and I’m going to do some serious looking into it.