Google Wave

Google has announced that it will be releasing 100,000 invites to it’s new real-time communication platform titled Google Wave.

If you haven’t heard much about Google Wave, one of Google’s engineers sums it up best.

Email is the most popular way to communicate today on the internet, which is remarkable, because email was invented more than 40 years ago, before the internet, before the web… And it was done without the experience, sms, instant messaging, blogs, message boards, forums, social networks, wikis, and collaborative work environments.  We asked ourselves the question, “What might email look like if it was invented today?”  Google Wave is our attempt.

Google Wave appears to have the foundations of truly groundbreaking tool.  Just as search revolutionized how we locate information on the web, can Google Wave do the same to how we communicate on the web?

Take a look at the developer preview, below for a sneak peak at some of Wave’s features and decide for yourself.