Invites Go Out to Preview Google Wave

Austin, TX (myFOXaustin.com) - Google is inviting 100,000 select volunteers Wednesday to check out their new Wave product. The select individuals are those who have signed up to provide feedback.

The highly anticipated real-time communications service is not "ready for prime time," but the company said on Tuesday it was on track to begin the biggest field test yet of the potentially groundbreaking Google Wave.

The new product has been considered one of the company's most promising innovations and it's intended to help spread the company's footprint to corporate clients. Wave aims to combine instant messaging, email, document handling and social networking features in one package.

According to Google, Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

A post on the Google blog noted that there are still key features of Google Wave that have yet to fully implement. Google will be rolling out these and other features as soon as they are ready — over the next few months.

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Link: Google Blog