I agree with Dabeeeenster on this one, I just spent the last 20 mins playing with wave and although I had a big spurt of "Wow, this is really cool, real time comms", I was also faced with a usability question of "What is this" and more worryingly, "What can I do now".
It's not obvious what you can do with the system easily. I spent about 10 mins trying to tag up a google map whilst other people did the same, the result being a map dragging fight and trying to type in a description before someone deletes the pin.
In summary... er... It might be useful for small internal groups of people you know, but it's going to need some marketing and training.
I have never used it but from what I have read I wonder how much of it could replace Exchange and SharePoint within the corporate environment.
Could you see a company hosting it internally and manage permissions via Active Directory or LDAP groups to allow collaboration on documents or discussion groups?
Does it have potential to help the information overload that plagues corporate email (or maybe it will make it worse).
Calendaring? Does it even exist in the Wave universe?
It's not obvious what you can do with the system easily. I spent about 10 mins trying to tag up a google map whilst other people did the same, the result being a map dragging fight and trying to type in a description before someone deletes the pin.
In summary... er... It might be useful for small internal groups of people you know, but it's going to need some marketing and training.