When we talk about open sourced we meant it for many reasons, and the main reason is that Google want to work with developers from all around the world to complete this product. It’s a browser based application which will be launched later this year.
Google wave allows people to communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. It’s shared and any contributor can reply everywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the procedure. Then playback lets everyone winds back the wave to see who said what at which time.
With the features of Google Wave’s live transmission as user type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and work together with extensions in real-time and much more.
So if you believe that you are a developer who can make some contribution to this unbelievable product which may change the internet user’s communication style, so you may request Google an invitation as first 100,000 invitations are free, Invitations can be requested at (http://wave.google.com/help/wave/closed.html).