Wave isn't being fully integrated into Google Docs. There's a large feature overlap, but the two products use different implementations of operational transfor

Wave isn't being fully integrated into Google Docs. There's a large feature overlap, but the two products use different implementations of operational transformations (the heart of Wave's "liveness") among other things. Ideas from Wave may be included, but the core technology is not going to replace the core of Docs. Wave in a Box is an open source project, not a google service. That's what the Wave team is putting most of their effort on. Next year, it seems like most will be moving onto other Google projects unrelated to Wave. I'm in a coding session at the Wave Protocol Summit right now, and everyone's focused on federating Wave in a Box servers together. I'm working on a RaphaelJS Doodad. Doodads are new-- they're extensions to the Wave editor. So you basically get to use the Wave Protocol to collaborate on structured data with a custom interface (in my case, SVG graphics). One major concern is what happens to our precious google waves, so the export feature from GWaves -> Wave-in-a-Box is a big deal.