Google Wave may soon make some significant strides towards winning over people who don't see the need for a new form of communication. This week, Google semi-officially endorsed an open source project that would see Wave imitate several aspects of traditional online forums. David Crane, the founder of Debatewise, is the developer behind the push, and he was asked to write about it on the Google Wave Developer Blog . Crane argued, "A forum could be a killer app for Wave.