I was excited yet skeptical about Google Wave at first, but after watching the YouTube keynote about it I think my excitement is outweighing the skepticism.

Yes, it’s true that it’s a bit of a trick to stretch your mind around it at first. Refactoring email and IM and collaborative document creation and wikis into a new beast is pretty ambitious. Also, when people say that they’re going to revolutionize anything before it has even launched, you can’t help but feel like they’re a little too confident for their own good.

However, the several subtle changes in the way people interact (real-time, shared documents, integrated with the web) are impressive at first glance (ie. aren’t confusing) and the way that they’ve brought in big new ideas seems to make communication easier and more fun rather than more advanced or more pragmatic. I am a believer that technologies that simplify will be adopted over technologies that have more functionality.

In the end, people just want to talk, share, joke, and chase each other around. Google Wave seems to allow us to do that. Therefore, I think it will be successful. I’ve signed up for a developer account for sure.

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