"But there a few key features that really speak to Google Wave’s potential. Specifically, the fact that it is open-source and can be fitted with extensions and applications. Today, the Google (Google reviews) team showed off a few extensions for their new communication platform. One of the most interesting ones, though, was Twave, a Twitter (Twitter reviews) extension for Google Wave. The integration makes sense: Google Wave and Twitter are both forms of real-time communication, so why not bring them together? The result, though, speaks to the potential applications of Google’s newest product."