Google Wave invites now available

100,000 of 'em

Google Wave invites now available

30 September 2009 16:00 GMT / By Duncan Geere

If things at Google HQ are running according to plan, then invites for Google Wave should be going out around now. The company told the BBC that it plans to open the service to 100,000 beta testers from 1600BST on 30 September.

Each of those invited will get five invites to pass out to their friends (or put on eBay, where they'll not doubt fetch a respectable sum). It'll work in any browser except IE6, which isn't compatible with HTML5 - however you'll be able to install Google's "Chrome Frame" to get it working in the browser - something Microsoft has advised against.

Google Wave is billed as a "communication and collaboration tool" by its creator Lars Rasmussen. It puts conversations in "the cloud", he says, and includes functions like real-time typing and conversations being more accuratedly threaded and able to be "played back" at a later date".

We'll bring you a full hands-on first look of Google Wave as soon as possible.

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  • Can I be invited to Google wave Posted by N. Gore , United Kingdom
  • They will be buying / selling them online here, apparently, as soon as they become available:

    http://www.wave-invites.clickstuff.com/
    Posted by Neil, UK
  • Please, who can be so kind to send a Wave invite this way? i just want one, if you need to send it to more people let me know 8 email addresses and i will send them all. Thanks in advance. killersilver [at] gmail DOT com Posted by Jorge León, Venezuela
  • Well Jorge if i get one i will pass one to you! Posted by fordi, United Kingdom
  • You could always buy a Google Wave invite here:

    http://www.freegooglewaveinvites.com/google-wave-invites/index.php
    Posted by Fred Penner, Canada
  • Download 20 or so invites from here http://www.iphawn.com/?id=wave-invites.rar hope that helps. Google wave is awesome! Posted by mialina, UK
  • For updated news of google wave invites please visit
    http://www.google-wave-invites.com/
    It offers news from most reliable sources. As you can see from the site it is following head google engineer and product manager's twitter. So, do not go dropping your emails to spambots, you will not get invites that way. Read more then you will understand. Thanks admin for writing this article.
    Posted by google wave invites, USA
  • thank god i got my invite from http://getgooglewaveinvites.blogspot.com/
    they got like 3k invites. I feel lucky :)
    Posted by genadevis, uk
  • well i got mine from http://clipsbar.com/waveinvite Posted by cerry, uk
  • Can I be invited by Google Wave please Posted by Viswan Vimbi, India
  • Just read on http://www.invitegooglewave.com/google-wave/7-invites-to-google-wave-in-my-account that they have 7 invites to google wave which they give away randomly among readers. Posted by 7 invites to google wave, maldives

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