google wave social medium

[Robert Brodie]

Hi,
  Does anyone do google wave?
It is a combination of instant messenger, IRC, bulletin board, email, 
collaborative document developer and multimedia albumn. Some new 
elements but the easily accessible integrated combination is its 
strength.
In my (limited) experience, warmups are more sustained than any other 
social networking medium.
The grip on privacy is obvious and easy. (Facebook is getting better 
in this regard too. You have always had a lot of control and how to 
implement it is getting more clear)

I am just wanting others to play with at the moment to see what is 
possible and maybe get something worthwhile arising in this domain.

robtbrodie at googlewave.com

Here is a quote I came across illuminating the name

"Etymology

The name was inspired by the Firefly television series in which a 
Wave is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call 
or video message). During the developer preview, a number of 
references were made to the series such as Lars Rasmussen replying to 
a message with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series to mean 
cool or good, and the crash message of Wave being a popular quotation 
from the series: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!".

During an event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands it became apparent that 
the sixty strong team that is currently working on Wave in Sydney, 
Australia, use Joss Whedon-related references to describe, among 
others, the Sandbox-version of Wave (which is called Dollhouse after 
the current TV-series by Firefly-producer Joss Whedon which is aired 
on Fox in the USA). The development of external extensions is 
codenamed "Serenity", after the spaceship used in Firefly and the 
2005 motion-picture spin-off of Firefly, Serenity. To prevent 
copyright issues with Fox, Universal Pictures and Whedon's production 
company Mutant Enemy, Google would not confirm any reference to 
Firefly, Joss Whedon or Serenity. "

Rob