Remember Google Wave? Last November I was pretty excited to get an invite to join Google's experimental real-time communication platform (which is still in preview and not released to the public). After I got the invite, I immediately logged on and played around a little bit—but largely by myself. With Google Wave, collaborators share e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves. Since I didn't have any collaborators, or at … [Read more...]