Google Wave Preview Opens to the Public on September 30th

Hm, looking forward to seeing if it's as misunderstood (<i>under</i>-estimated) as I think it is. I'll write this up as a full post later, but is it just me who imagines that Wave is sort of like Alan Kay's original vision for OOP - objects which "exist" across computers, respond to changes, etc.

I've been on the early access for a month, and it is indeed a very interesting technology, although one I think will initially at least see more use in the enterprise than with consumers. However, it's very much a walled garden at the moment, so I'm interested in seeing how it'll integrate with other tools we use on a daily basis.

While the technology and idea behind Wave is indeed exciting, the implementation of it as a product (in the Dev Preview) is sorely lacking.<p>It's one of the most buggy and frustrating user experience I've ever forced myself to go through. To be honest, I don't know how they'll pull it all together in six weeks.<p>Having read all the positive reviews about Wave that don't mention its glaring problems, I wonder if the Reality Distortion Field around Google is worse than it is around Apple.

for those who hear only hype and fluff about google wave taking over the world. here is something factual: <a href="http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html" rel="nofollow">http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html</a>

I am so eager to give it a try. I love gmail and am on it 24/7 (ok, almost).