Google to Send 100,000 Invitations to Preview Google Wave

Just as we reported back in July, Google announced today in an official Google Blog post that on Wednesday, September 30 they will send 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to active developers, some of the first users to sign up for testing and select customers of Google Apps. This does not mean Google Wave is launching to the public today [ahem, Mashable].  As Google says it, “Google Wave isn’t quite ready for prime time. Not yet, anyway.”

Google will ask some of these “early users” to nominate people they know to also send them an invitation. This will make the Google Wave experience for these users even more fun since Google Wave is a communication tool and who better to test it with than your friends and relatives? Google also expects to send more invitations to more people soon.

It is said that when the invitations are sent, the current interface of the Google Wave website, which currently has an embedded video of the Google Wave preview at Google I/O, will be replaced with the application itself.

These 100,000 people will be very lucky indeed. This we can tell because we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from people who are extremely excited about Google Wave. All we hope is that some of our readers get an invitation [let us know if you do]. We’ll keep following this story.