Can Google's New Wave Out Do Cisco's Disco?

In a cursory look at the number of Twitter posts re: Google's Wave app, today (where I noted one poster said he's convinced Wave combines "the worst of email and IM all together in the same place") - I watched as, every 30 seconds, between 150 and 250 new tweets were posted on the subject. In contrast, only between 5 and 15 tweets were chirping every 30 seconds about Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg.

Not that I'm seeking intellectual understanding of the PR quotient here (I get it that Wave's cool factor, applicability to the everyday person, and, more generally, its "Googliness" makes it immediately more popular than chatter about two, crusty high-tech behomouths), but I ask you, if you mute the hype and look at the "nMash" business opportunities each of these items of public interest presents (one a new, potentially killer app; the other a deal that may highlight Cisco's next arena of complete domination [of course, until Google finds a way to usurp]: enterprise-level, secure digital video communications), which one really deserves more chatter in terms of immediate or not-too-distant-future application for good in business and life? Are they equally, potentially next-level news? Or, does Wave really hold more potential and, thus, is receiving its fair share of twittering and newsy-ness?

Google's Wave app, while still buggy, sure, is easily one of the most elegant idea mashes we've seen since Apple pushed iPhone and created a platform to launch millions of apps - many of them mashes. Clearly, Wave looks to have the same platform and revenue sharing opportunity for developer mashers as iPhone did and does.

Meanwhile, Cisco, the wired and wireless networking Olympian, just bought 3 billion dollars worth of Defense, Education and Fortune 500 client base as well as technology that it is sure to "improve" and mash with its current software and hardware assets. I wonder what this might mean for the future of mobile, secure video? What are the implications for Distance Learning?

I could go on, but it would be much more fun to read what you all think (?)...