ronin - 9:57 pm on Aug 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

I strongly suspect StoutFiles is right and that GoogleMe will turn out to be Wave 2.0. If that does turn out to be the case then Google is not much 'closing' Wave as ensuring that GM has a small army (okay, a very small army) of people ready to sign up enthusiastically as soon as the GM pre-launch invites start rolling out.