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"Less than two months ago, Google dropped a spectacular surprise upon the world: Google Wave.  The communication tool aspires to redefine not only email, but the entire web.  And from our very first test of Google Wave to our complete Google Wave Guide, we have to say that it's a game changer.\nWell, in the last two months, Google and third-party developers have been hard at work testing out the system, fixing the kinks, and building some amazing extensions (which we discussed in-depth previously).  Still, only a handful of people, almost all developers, have access.  That's about to change soon though: on September 30th, Google will start sending out about 100,000 invites for the next version of Google Wave.\nGoogle Wave's Rollout\n\n\n\n\nGoogle made the big revelation in a blog post on the Google Wave developer's blog.  The post is part of an update on the Google Wave Hackathon, which allows developers to come to the Googleplex and work with the Google Wave API to build extensions such as Wave in Wordpress, a bot that allows you to easily place Waves in WordPress posts.\nIt looks as if the testing in the Google Wave sandbox is going well though - it opened up the sandbox to 6,000 new developers and up to 20,000 more will get access before the end of August.  But this pales in comparison to the 100,000 users that will get access on starting September 30th.\nAccording to Google, at that point Google Wave will appear on Wave.Google.com, instead of the Wave Sandbox.  They will help further test for bugs, provide feedback, and play with apps.  Google intends to invite groups of users, so the invites may not come out all at once.\nIf you want to be part of the next wave of testing (haha, get it?!), you can sign up for updates here.  Until the invites go out though, you're going to have to get your Google Wave fix from our extensive Wave coverage and analysis:\nMore Google Wave Resources from Mashable\n- Google Wave: A Complete Guide- Testing Google Wave: This Thing is Tidal- The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave- Google Wave Extensions: An Inside Look- Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication?- Twave: Google Wave + Twitter\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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