Google Wave live 30 September

[efq]

Google Wave, which allows friends to chat and share

Initially, the service will only be available to around 100,000 people, who must sign up for the chance to be granted early access. Google is expected to roll out Google Wave to the general web public a month or so later.
So far, only around 25,000 developers building applications and tools for Google Wave have been able to access the service

Google believes Wave represents the “next step” in online communication, combining real-time chat and email in to a single web browser window. Groups of friends will be able to set up a Wave, and swap photos, maps, videos, documents and other information “live” over the internet in real time.
Even instant-messaging style chats between friends will be in real time, with the Google Wave screen showing what a person is typing as they type it. Users will even be able to pull in feeds from sites such as Flickr and Twitter, and show those within their Wave.
Google said that in the run-up to the first wave of invitations to try out the new service, it will focus on improving the speed, stability and usability of Wave.
Developers are busy creating plug-ins and widgets for Wave which will extend the functionality of the service. One such project, dubbed Waves in WordPress, will enable web users with a WordPress blog to embed entire Wave conversations in a blog post, allowing readers to view and interact with the conversation.

Cool, I think i'll be sure to give it a try when its fully released.

[Recursion]

I got a developer and test account yesterday for Wave, Need to try it out at some point.

[Hazza]

Ooh cant wait

[J0SH]

Can't say I'm excited

[Fehm]

Really looking forward to this... Researched it alot, should be awesome tbh!

[Jordan,]

Really looking forward to this... Researched it alot, should be awesome tbh!

agreed. I hope im picked for one of the 100,000

[Recursion]

You will have already got the e-mail if you were I think.

[efq]

You will have already got the e-mail if you were I think.

In a month.

[Jam]

No-one will ever be able to move the majority of teens from Windows Live (MSN) as they're either not bothered or have no idea about other services.

...and I won't be using this either.

[efq]

No-one will ever be able to move the majority of teens from Windows Live (MSN) as they're either not bothered or have no idea about other services.

...and I won't be using this either.

They don't want to make it completely IM based and its just 'another' feature within Google Wave like facebook IM chat.