I haven't read too much on the technical side of things about this yet, but TechCrunch's quick rundown sounds a lot like what I was arguing Wave had the potenti

I haven't read too much on the technical side of things about this yet, but TechCrunch's quick rundown sounds a lot like what I was arguing Wave had the potential to become when it launched a year ago. If you stepped back from Wave and stopped looking at it as fancified email and instead as an extensible platform for arbitrary data, it seemed blindingly obvious to me that the next step would be to build it out into a full fledged social networking service. The fact that both projects are built on top of XMPP definitely strikes me as interesting, as well. I've always been a little dumbfounded that the part of Wave everybody talked about was the collaborative text editing type stuff in the I/O demo, when if you read any deeper, it should have been clear that that stuff was just a UX tech demo and that the important part was the underlying technology. OneSocialWeb sounds a lot like somebody is building a similar technology specifically in the direction I thought Wave would go.