What Is Google Wave?

Google wave is a communication platform. You can look at it as like a mix between instant messaging, email, social networking, and chat.
You can try asking friends for an invite (maybe someone you know already has some to send out).

Google and Microsoft continued their war of ideas on Thursday, with the software giant unveiling a new web 2.0 search engine and Google said its planning to launch what it calls "the e-mail of the future" later this year.

At the D7 conference in California Thursday, Microsoft introduced Bing, which it says its not just a search engine, but a "decision engine" that will take search to a whole new level.

Meanwhile, Google introduced a new communication tool that it hopes will redefine the way we communicate online.

Google Wave, which was first under the codename of "Walkabout", will mesh elements of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis and photo-sharing to help simplify online communication.

Developers began testing out Wave yesterday but for the rest of is who are still having a hard time figuring out just what this new tool will do, check out the below video online that Google released.

It offers an in depth explanation that runs for 90 minutes.