I used wave for a brief period of time. A few classmates and I formed a wave and used it to talk about the class, assignments, and how awful the professor was that day. It initially worked ok for that purpose, but when it got to 100+ posts, it was as slow as molasses and we stopped using it. In retrospect, a forum would have worked better for what we were doing. I think wave was trying to aim for a niche in between IM and forums. The problem is that, that niche doesn't really exist.

Obligatory: I would like to call attention to the radio abridged reading of War of the Worlds and the panic that ensued when people thought it was a news broadcast.

If the competition for Vista is XP, there would be some incentive for microsoft to break parts of XP with service pack 3. Perhaps we should approach SP3 with caution.