September 30: what does the preview of Google Wave do for us?

The site readwriteweb.com has information about what news about Wave is waiting for us on September 30 (thanks to Alexey Isachenko for finding this article).

The author of the article talked to the Google Wave team and reports such details:

• Google will send around 100,000 invites starting September 30th.
  They are planned to be approximately the same number, but the GW team assumes that there may eventually be more invites. Everything will depend on the success of work on the stability of the system.
• invites will receive three user groups: the current sandbox participants, those users who filled out the application for access to GW over the past few months (will receive an account in the "earlier arrived, served earlier" mode) and a number of selected corporate (enterprise) users with Google Apps accounts.
• additional invites will be sent out as the GW team will increase Wave performance.
• users will not be able to send invites directly to friends, but each Wave user will be able to “nominate” eight (8) of his Ocean friends, who will be placed at the beginning of the queue to receive new accounts.
• All current accounts from the sandbox will be moved to the domain wave.google.com.
  New features here, of course, will appear in the coming months, but the main focus is still on scaling the system. The appearance of crash messages (“Everything is fine, beautiful marquise”) is not excluded and there will be periodic system shutdowns for updating, as it is now in the developer version.
• contact management system will be integrated with Google Contacts.
  For the time being, only users with accounts in Google Wave will be shown there.
• The Google Wave team will select a number of robots and widgets created by developers.
  Now in the Wave will not be the AppStore or the market of robots and widgets. Users will be able to install only a small number of applications selected by the GW team .
• Internet Explorer users will be warned to install and use Chrome Frame.
  Here about this plugin in Russian on Habré.

More on the upcoming changes can be found in the message of Lars Rasmussen and Stephanie Hennon in Google's official blog and in the message of Stephanie Hennon in the Google Wave developer blog (in English).

In Russian news about Wave appear in our blog or in a group .