I really need to find an hour to watch that... - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

Yes you do. And I need to figure out how to get on the inside or find five developers who want to start building stuff...imagine that spell check/translator/linking backend hooked up to an ontology browser just for starters. But the real beauty is in aggregation and republishing mechanisms. This is taking Jon Udell's pub-sub paradigm to a whole new level. - Cameron Neylon

For all the complaining we do on friend feed about science apps, you'd think we'd be able to put some ideas together, pitch them to an angel group, and actually produce something we'd all like to use. - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

My thoughts exactly - or conversely write the killer grant application (ideally with Google support) to develop something that works and test it in anger. - Cameron Neylon

The conflict resolution aspect is what sold it for me. Having worked with wikis quite a bit, I know how much of an issue this can be. Oh, and the real-time translation... also really cool. Can't wait for this to become available. - Ricardo Vidal

I do wonder how well the conflict resolution will work over dodgy connections or where you have bad latency - Cameron Neylon

Getting google backing would be a good selling point. - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

Absolutely - believe me I'm on the case. Will be proposing "Making waves in laboratory notebooks" as a Scifoo session... - Cameron Neylon

I sent a link to this thread to Bill Flanagan (OpenWetWare lead developer) ... not sure if he's on friendfeed, though. - Steve Koch

It reminded me of what Rajarshi does with email - inline comments and almost instant response. Just waiting for all the wave puns - "Making waves in the gene pool" etc. - Andrew Lang

My s.o. was at Google IO where they unveiled it and I believe they all get test accounts. Not even in alpha yet but the potential is indeed huge. - Shirley Wu

Damn. I kept hoping that someone would come along and tell me that it wasn't worth watching, but everyone seems impressed. Guess I'll make some time soon. - Chris Miller

Between now and when Google Wave becomes publicly available is a good time to build extensions for scientists. I would be interested in working on a gadget, robots are best written in Java or Python. - Martin Fenner

Haven't seen it yet - would this be something to include in blog3? - Björn Brembs

+1 "Making waves in the gene pool", that's funny Andrew - Jim Hardy

am watching it now. Cool, very cool. Looks like I need to contact our grant agency where I just sent our grant application 2 hours ago... - Björn Brembs

Bjorn, I don't think it needs a complete change of direction. Blog3 (or any other semantic webby kind of thing) could easily be seen as a way of reprocessing or coordinating objects that are natively waves or as a way of authoring the connections between objects that are then sent out as waves. - Cameron Neylon

ps sorry I didn't get that letter to you. Basically been totally crap at delivering on anything in the past week. Apparently I don't scale well. Will try to be more useful in the future. - Cameron Neylon

One really does need to watch the whole video to get an appreciation for what this is truly capable of doing - Jean-Claude Bradley

Yup, especially the federation part towards the end. - Björn Brembs