Google Wave  Email was first introduced to the world over 40
years ago. Google decided to make a replacement that would be
what email is, if it were invented to day. Instead, they made
Google Wave.  The theory and practice of Google Wave  Just The
Facts    1. Google decided to revolutionize the industry by re-
imagining e-mail from scratch.   2. Instead, they stole the main
features of wikipedia, facebook and instant messaging, and
called it wave.   3. Invites for the damn thing are basically
the cocaine of the internet nowadays.  The great illusion  When
Google announced Wave, every tech-blog on the internet decided
to simultaneously orgasm. Wave is marketed as an e-mail
replacement for the modern world, seeing as how social
networking sites hasn't filled that niche for absolutely
everyone yet. Google next decided to make a service that
requires that people actually communicate with people they know
invitation-based, basically ensuring that the beta-testing
period will be as far from real usage as possible.