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Google Wave Open to 100,000 Users on Sept 30. Pick Me! Pick Me!

by Truemorist | July 21, 2009 at 12:59 pm

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Google Wave will open to the public on September 30th for a 100,000 user beta test. Some lucky ducky developer-types already have the code and have been hacking away at it like a colony of beavers, if beavers could work remotely via the Internet.

Along with a hard date on the semi-public beta test, Google also highlighted a few developer creations using Wave's API. One of them, called Waves in WordPress, lets bloggers quickly embed an entire Wave conversation into a blog post, which lets readers view and interact with it. Similar tools that let you do that with other social and blogging can be expected as Wave's API matures.

Those who already have the code have been working on early versions of Google Wave interactive tools.

To highlight a few, there's:

Groupy-the-bot: A robot, written in Python, that enables users to create groups and manage their own subscriptions.

Floodit Game: A competitive gadget game where users take turns capturing as many squares as possible.

Waves in WordPress: A neat use of the embed API that makes it easy to put waves in a post or page on WordPress.