An online friend sent me an invite to try their latest greatest experiment …, Wave:

… “a personal communication and collaboration tool” …

… a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.

… a “preview release” of Google Wave has been extended to about 100,000 users on September 30, 2009. …

This 8min video will give you an idea how it works.

Click PLAY or watch the tutorial on YouTube.

Very cool. But perhaps not particularly useful except for group projects. I don’t have any other “invites” to hand out. Perhaps they’ll send me some eventually.