Video: Google Wave public beta rolling out in September

It's hard to tell if Wave -- Google's new collaborative, universal messaging platform -- is revolutionary or simply, well, neat. It's like a telephone, great when everyone else has one but not so useful if you're the only one. At least that's how it seems after watching the near-universally acclaimed demo presented at Google I/O back in May. Starting September 30th, Google will open up the beta to 100,000 of its closest friends. Just hit the appropriate read link below to register for an invite or click through to watch the 1 hour and 20 minute demonstration. Go ahead, work can wait, innovation can't.

[Via PC Mag]

Read -- Sign up for Wave
Read -- September 30 beta

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:15AM]

first

[pavlindrom Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:19AM]

How dare you? From what country?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:28AM]

Well played good sir!

[Cyantre Posted Jul 22nd 2009 7:43AM]

I haven't read too much about Google Wave, but I am not particularly interested in it.

[Maeztro Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:10AM]

That hour and twenty minute should peak your interest....(er...put you to sleep)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:21AM]

does it have video conferencing?? I am yet to really be loyal to just one service whether it be skype/yahoo/msn i dont care.

[Dallasm Posted Jul 22nd 2009 11:55AM]

Wave is going to be Open Sourced so, hopefully, everyone will be using the same core system, like e-mail. (Or,alternatively, create a bunch of their own proprietary competing systems.)

[MLamont Posted Jul 22nd 2009 1:28PM]

If you have not read much about it, AND (not but) you are not very interested in it, why waste the time to comment here about it.

[sporkinum Posted Jul 22nd 2009 3:36PM]

Maeztro @ "That hour and twenty minute should peak your interest....(er...put you to sleep)"

Gaaa! It's pique! http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/peaked.html

[looselycoupled Posted Jul 22nd 2009 6:59PM]

You are interested in it because you haven't seen the video. period.

[dwight Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:17PM]

someones going to make an IDE gadget.

[LondonConsultant Posted Jul 22nd 2009 7:46AM]

Does it wave back?

[uhgotnegum Posted Jul 22nd 2009 12:02PM]

...In other news, hand unable to wave because it's slapping a forehead

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 7:51AM]

yaaay

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 7:55AM]

I applied for an invite. My fingers are crossed.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 7:56AM]

i've applied for an invite, it seems to be a merging between wikis and IM but well i can't wait to see

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:28AM]

So did I. But I'm not sure if I will have anyone to chat with i get in!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:02AM]

Sweet I can talk to all of my Google Talk friends! Oh wait...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:56AM]

Exactly, who actually uses google talk...The answer is very few. However if they could make this work with MSN then i would be interested..

[Schmitty338 Posted Jul 22nd 2009 12:51PM]

I use gtalk as my main messaging app. It is MUCH faster and stabler than MSN. MSN Messenger stinks, period. It takes forever to load, lags constantly, and ads everywhere.

[Anders Posted Jul 22nd 2009 1:45PM]

All of my friends use Google talk since just about everyone I know has a Gmail account. It isn't elegant, but it gets the job done.

I don't know anyone on MSN and I haven't used AIM since college...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 2:43PM]

They day I got gmail I gave up on AIM. I just keep a tab open to gmail anyway and I can chat with all of my friends who also use gmail. My Pre integrates gchat with SMS so I can seamlessly go between SMS and chat depending on where the recipient is and it shows as one thread on my phone.

So yeah, most everyone I know uses gchat. Nobody uses AIM or MSN because...why bother with another app?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:01AM]

Google Wave for me

That is all I want to see

Organize my life

[Luke Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:41AM]

I see what you did there.

[cajie Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:04AM]

I have a very short attention span when it comes to watching youtube videos - but I was actually riveted to this 1 hour and 20 minute long presentation. Watched the whole thing.
Pretty impressive tech. Love how they have rethought the whole concept of mail, collaboration, IM, blogs, and social networking and extensions as a single unit.

The on-the-fly translation of an IM chat from English to French (and vice-versa) was amazing.

[Charbax Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:10AM]

The brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen are Danish! Geniuses! They also did Google Maps!

[Bort Simpson Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:27AM]

Signed up but I wish they change it to something catchier and fun sounding like Google Wax where everyone gets to stick together waxing each other.,,, err. that doesnt sound right.

[orangesrhyme Posted Aug 6th 2009 1:58PM]

It's named after the communication system in firefly. Which I find awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:44AM]

"Bugs? No thanks, but i'll take a survey or two"

Google's getting almost as whitty as you are engadget....almost.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 8:45AM]

Yeah, but does it run Crysis?

[Arcaria Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:59AM]

This joke ran it's course months ago. Fail.

[noes Posted Jul 22nd 2009 12:43PM]

its ok, some people still think using 'fail' is clever and funny

[Decoy Posted Jul 23rd 2009 4:13AM]

Abort. Retry.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:03AM]

And as google products tend to do... google wave will roll out of beta on september 30, 2014.

[Ellianth Posted Jul 22nd 2009 12:43PM]

Nah, they'll just not update it or add any features. Kinda like google talk. Tell me why the gmail chat client has more features than the stand alone client.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:05AM]

Gotta ask because I didn't see it anywhere are a quick glance, but is this pc/mac or pc only?

[Charbax Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:12AM]

It's web browser Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Safari.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:19AM]

But the real innovation is the underlying protocol. If this really does hit off expect Microsoft Office 2014 Outlook Wave.

Point I'm making is nothing is stopping someone from making a client.

[Charbax Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:13AM]

Blog comments, like these on Engadget, will become much more fun when they are all in real-time charachter by charachter, and when you can easily see when new comments are added to the thread.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:17AM]

Waiting for the EU to tell them they need to unbundle all the features and support different IM, eMail, etc. clients in the UI.

[Dallasm Posted Jul 22nd 2009 12:27PM]

Google is going to open source the system. That means anyone can jump on board who wants to, in anyway they want to. This is really a great deal.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:16AM]

Watched the whole thing, and it was worth it. Looks really fabolous.

[raeesgillani Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:26AM]

i like this :D
I WANT!

[jDazs Posted Jul 22nd 2009 9:41AM]

zenbe.com has something out already that's similar to this.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 10:15AM]

I've been using the developers sandbox for a few days, and whilst it's cool, it is very much like the phone - for now it's just interesting to play with but unless everyone you talk to had it, it's not really that useful...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 10:34AM]

looks a bit cluttered to me.. But I'd be willing to give it a shot.

[Martin C Posted Jul 22nd 2009 10:39AM]

I hope I get invited. This is the FUTURE, people.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 11:09AM]

Amazing Stuff, cannot wait! seriously amazing!

Geart work google, damn you deserve even more clapping that what was in that video! Jeez

Best of luck :) Can you provide me with a demo account? Please? :D

Hehe

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 11:45AM]

They made a typo in the translation; it should be, "Tout deviens beaucoup plus facile."

Anyways, it seems to be a pretty interesting concept. I just hope we won't have to spend 90% of our time using the playback feature because the wave is cluttered with replies.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 11:49AM]

Holy crap. I read this story, then checked my mail and there it was - a google wave invite! I kid you not!