I heard about this a while back, but some of you may not have.

A while ago, Google started production on what it hoped would be the next generation "e-mail" concept. The idea was that email, which was a concept of yesteryear, was far too restricted for today's media-happy and instant-chat-loving age. So they decided to make something different.

What they made was "Google Wave."

Some people laughed at first... I was skeptical myself. Even from the "king of email" (as I thought of them), this was an ambitious project. But while there may be a small learning curve to get into it, I realized that they were onto something.

Google Wave really does take "email" to the next level. You can get entire groups of people in on a conversation, with all kinds of media, and in general communicate like you've never communicated with email before. This is "fully multimedia", real-time, interactive "chat mail" ... and I think those who are bold and brave with computers and this sort of thing will probably get a kick out of it.

So I decided to pass the word along.

I first saw Google wave when it was in it's closed beta phase. Looks like it's open to public now, so... everyone who wants to give this next-generation vision of email a shot, can go on over to google wave's site, and learn all about it, and sign up if they want.

No, I don't work for them. I just thought it was a really cool concept, and thought it was a shame more people didn't know about it.

I can't speak for the politics or ethics or morals of the people who run google, but... they've had some pretty cool ideas.

I'm ashamed I posted it now. I've been hearing some pretty disturbing things about the google "empire" recently. I now feel convinced that it's not advisable to say anything in your google mail/wave accounts that you wouldn't want *ahem* ... "others" ... to read.

Maybe that's just conjecture but...