[…] Google Wave was oversold as something you’d use with the public, or at least with large groups of friends, like you use Twitter, email, or Facebook.

No. Using it that way is an attention dump and will kill your productivity. Google Wave is actually closer to IM. Great with your very close friends or very active coworkers but horrid for nearly everyone else.

Google’s Wave will crash hard onto the beach of overhype.

It’s interesting to see Robert Scoble complains about noise from his Google Wave. This is coming from a man who once followed more than 100,000 people in Twitter and thrives in finding value amidst all the noise.

To be clear, it’s not Google Wave itself that is being criticized — it’s the hype surrounding it and how people are talking about Wave being a Twitter killer. From what I can see, the creator of Google Wave, Lars Rasmussen, envisions it to be more of a personal and collaboration tool — not a public discussion forum like Twitter and Friendfeed. A tool, however, will be used as the owner wishes. It will be interesting to watch how Google Wave is eventually used after people are more familiar with its strengths and weaknesses.