Early explorations of Google Wave Sandbox are pretty exciting. There's a lot of activity already and for my niche interests, I see great promise along two lines:
- Lifestreams could give way to, or become hybrid with LifeWaves. What I will be dabbling with is the ability to create the next generation lifestream, along with the extended capability of multiplexing and filtering your life[stream|wave] with others. This could be one route to accomplishing the goal of individual digital stream autonomy and ownership, while fostering robust, extended, collaboration. Potential conflict of interest: AdSense vs. other User As Content / Conversation As Content monetization methods & platforms.
- Proposal and Project Management. All too often completed under intense time and collaboration compression, Wave technology could be used to create extraordinarily efficient proposal machines that bring together the diverse, disparate data and expertise required to create winning proposals. Task or purpose-specific Wave Robots could stand at the ready of various databases to suggest pertinent content, reference projects, and resources for specific projects. Along side realtime human peer-review, and with everyone on the same wavelength throughout the entire proposal development or project management process, this could result in higher quality proposals and more efficiently executed projects. Zero "didn't get your email/attachment" excuses. Zero "that's not what we agreed to" excuses. Zero "i guess i don't have access to that mapped drive" excuses. You're either paying attention and contributing to the wave, or you're not, and everyone can see who's making proportionate contributions at all times. No more poser pseudo-managers siphoning off your work as their own.