I think this one will be a slow burner until someone makes a UI which really takes advantage of it, then it'll become ubiquitous.
I think it will become ubiquitous though. It can't not. It's the first thing I've seen which genuinely looks like the 'next step' for the net.
As for people avoiding it cos it's google, that's not really a valid position (not that that will stop them all) cos it's completely open. A third party could build a wave server from scratch (not just host one but write one) cos the protocol is open as well as the source of their server (I think) and the API. If it goes as they expect then there'll be a good healthy ecology of servers like there are for email, web, ftp etc.
You can close off a server same as you can with an email server. It doesn't /have/ to communicate with the rest of the world's wave things.
Resource wise, I imagine it's going to take a lot to run one of these. I know google do clever code but this thing must eat resources. Especially when you scale it up a bit.
And yeah, didn't think much of the (form of) the presentation. "thank you... thank you.... thank you....". Good content though.
(and of course there'll be gateways to things like email, so i could be able to email you from wave and to me it's a wave, including your replies etc., but as far as you're concerned it's just an email. So it's not one of those all-or-nothing things which requires both/all parties to join. I think that's a big strength)
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What the hell did you do!
I'm a bit worried about that myself, since it was me he apologised to, and I have no idea what for.