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I know everyone’s been talking about it, and that I’m not supposed to be a news blog or anything like that, but I’m pretty excited about Google Wave after watching the presentation.

I try really hard not to be a Google fanboy, but I must admit I sympathize with the company and the way they work. The “do no evil” stuff might not be entirely true, but it’s corporate behavior is certainly well within what I consider a reasonable trade-off between the modern needs of a huge company and the lofty ideals of social responsibility.
It could all be a ruse to get big enough to rule the world and the paranoid side of me isn’t completely dead, but I give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
Anyway, I digress in my justification of admiration for Google.

I haven’t yet read the protocol specs, but I’m curious to see how they deal with connection problems between federating servers and the conflicting edits that might arise from such a situation. Also curious about possible desktop client integration and offline use.
I’ll hopefully have time to browse through it in the next few days.