“Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.”

Wave was born out of the idea that email and instant messaging, as successful as they still are, were both created a very long time ago. We now have a much more robust web full of content and brimming with a desire to share stuff. Or as Lars Rasumussen put it, “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

I have to see this for real before I can decide if it’s revolutionary, or just a nice user interface. One thing’s for sure, though: Facebook seriously dropped the ball by not focusing more on real group conversations / collaboration before Google did.

The idea is to make the system as open for adoption as possible. The team wants to see Waves created by someone communicating with Waves created by someone else. “We want it to be an open system like email. We want other services to build Wave services even in competition with Google,” Lars Rasmussen told us.

And with that in mind, Google plans to open source Wave.

Ooh.