There is a certain degree of hype involved in any new technology announcement, but Google Wave is definitely an interesting development. Basically, this is an online communication/conferencing/collaboration system built on what Google promises to be open software standards. This is apparently not just a standalone product, but also a way for third-party developers to create compatible applications to work with and within Google Wave (think about how TwitPic works with Twitter, for a basic analogy.) I was especially interested in the concurrency features (allowing multiple users to simultaneously work on a single document without getting in each others way, for instance) as well as the Robot (for automation) and gadget (for application integration) functionality. Also, I had not fully appreciated the gap in performance between the JavaScript engine used by Internet Explorer as opposed to the faster JavaScript engines used by Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Here's the link to the article on Ars Technica:
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