Google Wave to Hit the Scene

Google Wave, introduced back in May, is Google’s most inventive project yet. The driving thought behind the Wave was, “What would e-mail look like if it was invented today?” Wave takes the two known (and very independent) ideas of instant messaging and e-mail and combines the two to create a super instant message-email system called the Wave.

When Google first introduced their new idea, they were very vague about its date of public launch… and that hasn’t really changed. But they have set a date for the first round of semi-public testing. On September 30^th, 2009, the Wave will be passed on to 100,000 users outside the Google testing circle. Google has given 6,000 developers (outside of Google) access to the program so far and plans on giving 20,000 more by the end of August.

If you didn’t already sign up to be a tester for the “sandbox” version of Wave, you can sign up here, but most spots will be going to developers who will agree to build protocols, tools, or routines for building the software, making it easier for the Wave to be publically launched.