This brilliant bit of marketing appears to be doing quite well in the twit-o-sphere. The cause is getting Microsoft to support "standards" by using the IE8 engine to render HTML email in Outlook, instead of the Word engine, which has been in there since 2007. Behind this movement is the "grassroots" Email Standards Project, which is apparently composed of one email marketing firm and two freelance designers. Judging by this deluge of copypasta, the sheeple are overwhelmingly supportive. Read more...

Much to my non-surprise, someone has already gone and hacked up a crude Wave server using Django and Orbited.

Naturally, it's incomplete, as are the standards it aims to implement, but the author intends for it to evolve into a full implementation. For now, it's apparently suitable for testing gadgets, one of the numerous extension types.

It won't even let you see waves unless you are invited to them, so if you sign up, post your id and I'll add you to my awesome wave. Alternately, invite jedediah@pygowave.p2k-network.org to yours. I'll bring snacks.

Me and the other smart people are tinkering with Wave stuff now. What are you working on? A Twitter mashup? Tsk tsk, and you had such potential.