Excited about Google Wave

I'm getting really excited about Google Wave. This is a new communications tool combining conventional messaging and social media concepts to create an open source platform that allows you to share media, collaborate on projects and just plain talk to each other.

The video below is a demo of the application and is worth having a look at. It looks incredibly powerful and Google have already handed over development accounts to prominent developers and should have some exciting applications when it is launched later in in the year.

My inner football blogger has me thinking about how live coverage could be revolutionised in a way that will excite the user, challenge content providers and frighten the MSM. As a Backgammon player, I'm really psyched by the gaming extensions too.

However, this is only the tip of the mind blowing ice burg. In short, Wave threatens to be the de facto form of communication on the Web. Its like e-mail, IM and Web 2 all rolled into one. The translator function looks awesome.