I agree that it was a terrible start. But have you looked at it recently? I've been using Wave to manage most of my project-related communications (with one or

I agree that it was a terrible start. But have you looked at it recently? I've been using Wave to manage most of my project-related communications (with one or two partners), and it's fantastic. Like Etherpad, but a lot more powerful. And fyi, the Etherpad team is now part of the Google Wave team.