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Originally Posted by rmerren

Google wave is not publicly available. It is pretty cool, though all in all it is just a web-based version of the kind of services that Telepathy basically makes available to a Linux desktop (or phone). Here is what it does:

• You can have complex IM chats (not just back and forth, but threaded and with multiple people).
• You have embedded "extensions" which are apps or widgets that can get dropped into the document/conversation. For example, a map widget or a poll or attached files
• You see real-time what others are adding to the wave
• You can edit anywhere in the wave, and you can replay the activity.

So my questions are:

• Is anyone working on a wave-based app for the N900?
• What would you want in a Maemo-based wave app?
• What, if anything, would you do with Wave generally (e.g. anything other than multiuser chats?)
• Should there be a wave client for conversations, and how would it work?
• Other app ideas...e.g. a wave message alerter that links you there, or a wave viewer akin to RSS (see the basics, link to the full wave with a click)

One other thing...wave works fine on the browser on the N900. I'm not sure if there is any other phone that can use it fully (though there is only one that anyone actually cares about comparing things to...and I'm sure there is or will be an app for it soon that does the basics, though the phone-which-will-not-be-named has its apps all walled off from one another, so it is interesting to see how this kind of cross-cutting access will be used.). And I'd be surprised if it was not integrated into Android somehow, though it doesn't seem that it is yet.

Any thoughts on this?