Wave wasn't really designed to be a social experience. During the keynote, they talked about what Email would be like if it were designed using today's technol

Wave wasn't really designed to be a social experience. During the keynote, they talked about what Email would be like if it were designed using today's technology, rather than evolving from snail mail. What they came up with was a lot of very impressive technology. They gave this technology to the developers in beta to see what they could do with it. While Wave was scrapped, bits and pieces of it live on everywhere from Docs and Calendar to Google +.