Google Acquires Etherpad

From february 2010, the Etherpad team will be working fulltime on wave. This is good news for anyone who's been annoyed by the beta-flavour of wave's collaborative editing features. Etherpad has been around for a while, and is far more mature than the current collaborative editing features in wave.

This also means that Google continues to invest in the further development of Wave. (Not that we doubt this, but it's nice to see some real tangible proofs of commitment like this)