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Thanks.

Follow up question. If someone built an extension for interacting with people outside of the wave say by email (yes what they tried to do away with) or maybe sms, then do you think things would have worked out with the school projects scenario?

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I doubt it - the benefit comes in the fact that IM's happen in real time but are saved for anyone not online. Forwarding it through SMS and email just wouldn't do, I think. If no one had heard of Google Wave, I think they'd be just as scared to start getting lots of emails 'through' it, and no one would actually use the functionality it offers.

Mr-Ray allows users without wave accounts to participate in a wave. It sends changes by mail and gives them a simplified interface to add content: http://wave.to/projects/mr-ray

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