Google Wave is making quite a splash. Initial information from Google is that Wave is an extensible real time collaboration platform leveraging technology behind Gmail, Google Docs and Picassa enabling groups of people to share messages, photos and other media together. The hype is that Wave is the next evolution of email and chat but I see this as more of a complementary solution to existing methods of communication. This will be great for open source and public documents.

I expect most corporates will block this technology for fear of information leakage and losing control of their intellectual property deploying commercial alternatives internally. I also anticipate Microsoft will catch up with a future version of Microsoft SharePoint.

Nevertheless it is an interesting and innovative development and I am sure will perform best under Google own browser – Google Chrome