Wow - from the little bit I see here (and it is a very little bit) - Google Wave looks and sounds impressive. I hope this actually comes out soon and is not just vaporware.
And while it looks to be a massive piece of software, I hope it is not another fragment of Google floating around the web. I hope it acts as a replacement for Gmail. I don't want it to be a separate thing I have to log into. Or something that I can't use with people not on Wave. Hopefully a "wave" acts as an email (or IM , or SMS, or meeting request or whatever) for those that are not on wave. Obviously there will be new functions that can only be a wave, but I hope it is backwards compatible with other communication. Don't make this just be a different network.
Since this is all about communication - hopefully we will see it bring in Google Voice as well. That's important. And hopefully the calendar plays a major role in here. I would think the events and meetings I'm involved in would be considered a wave since more often than not it involves my contacts. Picasa will obviously be involved.
Will I be able to add other social data to my contacts? Can I tie my friend's flickr, twitter and last.fm account to them. Can I generate a news feed on my contacts from this data? Jaiku started playing with this idea - does Google bring it and it's more prominent status update over here? (IM status update does not count - that needs to be different).
If it somehow includes this giant wish list maybe Google finally pulls off the long awaited "the internet is the social network". I've always doubted that was possible - but this looks close. Well the direction my imagination went when I saw the picture looks close. I'm excited to see what Google's imagination comes up with.
