Google Wave

And now the Google have come up with their new product - Google Wave. As I understand this latest product combines communication, collaboration and media-sharing into one insanely useful application. Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago. When you send out a Wave, you create a virtual object shared by you and the person or people you send it to. You can type in it, and so can everybody else who is on the Wave - it's stored on a central server instead of passed from PC to PC like e-mail. Everybody sees what everybody else is typing as they type it. Everybody can edit what everybody else writes. The full launch is expected in mid-2010.

Just as they did it with Gmail, the Googlers have made their newest product invitation-only. You can't just use Google wave; you have to be chosen. I am still waiting for a Wave invitation....