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The top story from the Googleplex this week is the announcement confirming Google Wave will be available to 100,000 testers this fall. The latest project lead by Google Maps developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Google Wave is an open source collaboration and communications platform that fuses conversations and documents in real-time.

Developers have already been getting their hands dirty in the Google Wave Sandbox with almost 6,000 active accounts. Google is working on filling an additional 20,000 account requests over the next month.

Leading up to the September 30th test launch Google will be working on increasing the stability, speed and usability of the Google Wave platform while expanding API features.

Source: Google Wave Developers Blog

Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, creators of Google Maps, are hoping for another home run for the Google brand with the developement of an open source collaboration and communications platform called Google Wave. A ‘wave’ brings together elements of conversation and document; riders of the wave exchange information and collaborate with photos, videos, rich text, maps, gadgets, feeds from other web sources, and more.

Wiki-like functionality allows everyone on a wave to directly edit content or comment on specific elements. Real-time updates allow collaborators to see changes being made as they happen. There is also a history or ‘playback’ feature that allows you to see how the wave has evolved.

Google Wave is an HTML 5 application built on the Google Web Toolkit. An open source project with rich APIs, GWave allows developers to build on top of the platform and also promotes communication and integration into other web services.

We think Google Wave looks ’swell’ so far and we’re anxious to see more of this product as it develops.

Source: Google Blog