Google's real-time collaboration platform, Google Wave, is gearing up to take on more beta testers. Come September 30 (this Wednesday), Google Wave will be made available to some 100,000 users. To date, the pre-reƖ version has only been handled by developers and selected testers.

First introduced at the Google I/O conference in May, Google Wave is an innovative personal communication and collaboration tool. It is a web-based service, computing platform and protocol designed to unite the finest aspects of email, IM, wiki, and social networking. The bodies behind Wave see it as the next-generation of Internet communication -- and based solely on the hour-long demonstration.

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