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.