As any good statistician will tell you: more data is not better data. But more data when intelligently analyzed, probed, manipulated and mastered can be extraordinary data. What really interests me is not the fact that we have more of anything (or everything), but the idea that we can potentially do more with what we have.

About a week ago, news broke of an exciting and innovative project from the Australian arm of the Mountain View Monster: run for your lives everyone, it’s Google Wave.