Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the contributor preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand investment of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, a creator with U.K. Web unfolding firm Solid State, blogged that, it's 'probably the most elderly form in a browser that I've seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And unlike the habitually minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a desktop form that just so happens to live in your browser.'" User molex333 has already written a Slashdot app and shares his initial reactions here.

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