Google had closed a big whole that could have eventually been exploited to a competitor’s advantage. On the search front Google pretty much dominated everything but content creation and the standards to create this content. If their competitors had not been asleep they could have easily created something like wave and eventually used this to catch up with Google. Now it seems that this could be a difficult thing to do; especially since Google will now have millions of developers helping them to expand the “Open” project. Who the hell inside of MS, and Yahoo missed this? Do they have an answer for Wave or are they all now in the Nokia mode; chasing the leader in a game that they can never win. Bravo Google, I m not your biggest fan, but I think with Wave you have changed the game. MS and the rest. You should take a good hard look inside your organizations and ask yourselves why it is that you cannot innovate and change the game the way that apple and Google can. For the Open Source community, Why did this idea not come from the Open Source community? It would have been nice if game-changing technology started in Open Source. Why do this not happen any more? To read more: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/09/12/fax-cash-advance-keys/