Looks really cool, and powerful. But one thing I'd like to see is an "Easy Button" [Staples]. So I can optionally dumb it down for times where I'd like to just send a message - fast. Or, for my non-techie dad. I realize that defeats the purpose, but if Google is planning on replacing their email interface with this, it'd be nice to have options. - Dean from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Makes a hell of a lot of sense, especially as an open platform play. My simple net out is that this is a model that deals elegantly with both messages and payloads, where the payloads could be pics, videos, posts, songs, maps, people/product/business listings, etc. As such, there is a lot of value in how the handling layer processes these messages/payloads, enabling them to be aggregated and/or filtered into logical constructs, like NOW, LOCAL, TYPE, POPULAR, VIRAL, ENGAGING, etc. I blogged about an application model that is very complimentary to this (and for which I have modeled out six very specific use cases) in a post called: “Right Here Now” services: weaving a real-time web around status http://bit.ly/i40h Check it out if interested. Mark - Mark Sigal from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Google's again step ahead of concurrent giant - MS with its Vine )) And it's not some e-mail revolution - seems more like re-shaping all the world net configuration, taking into account XMPP-based communication and phrase about "new protocols". Great invention. I want to participate in re-shaping the future )) - massagin from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I'm interested to know if Google Waves are going to eliminate spam from the ground up, or will we still receive Viagra spam Waves? Also will one be able to add participants to a Wave and restrict what they can do to the Wave? For instance, Waves could replace blog entries and only some participants would be able to edit it, whilst others would be able to comment on it, others only able to read it, and still others not be able to even know it is there. What about sending Waves to a huge list of subscribers, like mailing lists? If Waves are truly to replace email as we know it today, I'd like to know how these functions are going to be addressed. It's an exciting concept that the Google Wave team has presented and it would be wonderful to have a truly innovative upgrade to email. This product is long overdue. I hope it does all it seems to promise to do. What I want from it is a giant leap forward in productivity and an end to time lost on spam and other inbox clutter. - Richard Catto from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Richard: When you view the power of Google's spell checker, and how it's able to read for context in real time you can see how much more protected a wave is against spam than SMTP traffic is. The extensibility of the wave via participating robots makes the possibilities of what one can do with a wave nearly endless. And mind you, you don't "send a wave," you invite participants into the wave. This is a very key, and important difference to how they function as compared to email or IM. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)