Only 100,000 Google Wave Preview Invites Formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more

Google promises a new communication revolution with the launch of Google Wave, which is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Even after using Google Wave for a few months now, it is still hard to describe exactly what it is. It's as much of a real-time chat room as a platform for editing documents collaboratively.

It can also be used as a Wiki, to replace email and IM within an organization, or just to organize a pub crawl, as Wave's Lars Rasmussen points out in today's blog post.

There can be no doubt that Wave feels oddly familiar, especially because of its typical Google design, yet it also represents an alien concept for most users, as it combines so many services into one extremely flexible package but still remains deceptively simple to use.

Google Wave was launched today (September 30) but it will only available for a small group of 100,000 lucky new users.

These tests users will include public users who signed up early to test, developers, and a select group of Google Apps users, plus each new user will have 8 invitations to send out to their family and friends (these secondary users will not be given any invitation).

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