Google is once again making waves with the highly anticipated release of their new Google Wave platform. Google describes it as a real-time communications platform. It takes a little bit from chat, email, instant messaging, social networking and many other internet musts, and combines them into one communication platform. You can work in real-time with friends, family or colleagues from around the office, city or world.

Take a look at two of the screen shots provided by Google:

Wave is essentially a group conversation and document at once. People are able to meet on Google Wave and create a project. You can write a document in real-time that everyone can edit and comment on. Anyone on the wave can add photos, videos or maps, anything really.

Google announced Wave in late May. The buzz is huge. Mashable and Techcrunch can’t stop talking about it and every other tech geek salivates at the mention of Wave, like a high tech version of Pavlov’s dog. I’m not going to lie, BOALT is also pretty pumped. Google is sending out 100,000 invites in September.