Today, Google extended Wave invites to everyone that applied for one. Along with that, they hit the 1,000,000 user milestone. This is great and all, but I’m sure that three-fourths of these users don’t exactly know what to use Wave for. I consider myself half and half on that aspect.

To me, Google Wave is like the iPhone, without any apps (or extensions in wave) there is really nothing special about it. And sadly, the amount of extensions right now is very minimal. In fact, the only ones I have used is the ability to embed YouTube videos into a wave, and play Sudoku with friends in a wave. Nothing too exciting.

But I have to say that I am starting to realize the capabilities of Wave. When me and my friend were posting YouTube videos of our favorite songs onto a wave, I began to think of an extension that pretty much was a music library where all the wave participants could add music to. Sadly, I am not fluent enough in PHP to make such an extension but I am positive that it can be done.

Another thing I have begun to truly feel the power of is the power to edit every post in a wave. At first, this may seem like a nuisance, friends editing your waves saying that you have a big nose or something. But once you get past the immaturity, it really is an amazing tool. Say I was writing a story with a friend; I could post my rough draft onto a wave and my friend would be able to read and edit it. I would be able to see what parts he edited and along with that, we would both be able to reply to certain parts of the post giving our opinions on certain parts.

Google Wave, if accepted by the developer community, will be a very powerful product. And hopefully, with this recent release of a basically public beta, we will start to see the full extent of Wave. Having meetings in waves, writing stories or blogs in waves, making power points in waves, creating a music collection with your friends in wave. The possibilities, like with the iPhone, are endless. I just hope that it becomes as big as the iPhone, if not bigger.

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