I don't know if anyone else got as excited about Google Wave as I did a couple of years ago before Google canned it.....probably not because I was REALLY excited, as in couldn't sleep the next night so excited because I thought it was going to change everything. If they had been less stingy with invites I think it would have really caught fire, but they probably had good reason for doing so, but that's another story.

I just spent a few minutes firing it up from the Apache "Wave in a Box" project - amazingly it works!

I just followed the instructions found here and about 2 minutes later (plus a few for checkout and building) it was up: http://www.waveprotocol.org/wave-in-a-box/setting-up#macosx

So if you're missing Wave as I am you can feel empowered once again.