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How to get Google Wave Invites
Brandon Davenport
Google Wave is the next big thing, Email 2.0, and they are now ready to release it out into the wild. The cool thing is they are letting a select "few" try it out before everyone else. 100,000 people are going to get a chance to try it out, and also invite other people.
Note: you need a Google account to be able to use Google Wave
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team.
2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts.
3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access.
4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant. Here’s how Google explained it:
“We’ll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations — Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too. This, of course, will just be the beginning. If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave.”
Anyways , these are currently the only four ways to get an account on Wave. So if you don’t get an invite tomorrow, you still have hope. You’ll probably have to beg someone for an invite, though.
