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Adobe Wave pushes web notifications to your desktop and noms your ram

Text, Adobe, Freeware, web 2.0I don't have a problem with Adobe Air. There are a lot of great applications built on it, like TimesReader and Destroy Twitter (which I use to run the DLS Twitter account from time to time).Adobe Wave, on the other hand, leaves me a bit puzzled. Who wants to blow 50 megabytes of ram on an application that only pushes notifications to your desktop from select websites (currently nine with five more sites coming soon)? Who is Wave targeted at?By now, most of you probably have a favorite Twitter client or RSS reader that you've got configured just the way you like it.
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Waver, a cross-platform Google Wave application for your desktop

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