We've built a simple communication tool ...
so said the Google developer, a leader of the Google maps project.

"icland is an icland" was corrected to "Iceland is an island" as he typed.

He typed a message in English on his screen and it appeared, as he typed, in French on the respondents screen.

Just a couple of features from Google Wave, currently under development.

Will it compete with Twitter? He had aTwitter window open as part of his wave, and a two way conversation going on between them, if Twitter plus can beat Twitter then Google Wave can.

If anyone is up for a two hour boggle of the mind it is at:

http://www.euansemple.com/theobvious...in-london.html