Google Wave hands-on: Weird and wonderful
Google has just opened up to a limited audience its very interesting communications experiment, Wave. We got the chance to evaluate it and were impressed by what we saw. It's a more contemporary take on communications, but will knock many email users off balance.
Even Wave's own software engineering manager, Lars Rasmussen, told us: "It takes a little getting to... We're still learning how to use it." Imagine how everyone else will feel.
If you want to try Wave, you'll have to wait. Google is making access to the service available to some developers and press types, but it will not become fully available until "later this year", according to Google. The version we tested was very raw, as Wave is still in development. Many features were not implemented and the system threw up a few errors. But the framework and philosophy is clear to see, and that's what this evaluation is based on.
