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According to sources Google Wave will almost certainly have an application marketplace, where users will be able to purchase third-party applications for the new communication tool.

Google Senior Staff Engineer and Wave co-developer Lars Rasmussen has said that he would be very surprised if the applications model was not followed by Google. Google might be making the jump into the application marketplace model sooner than later.

“So we haven’t 100 per cent locked this in, but all the developers are asking [about paid-for apps],” said Rasmussen.

“…developers have asked us a lot for a market place where we’ll help them sell their extensions to our users including a revenue share so we’ll also make some money from it.

“I’ll be very surprised if we don’t go down that route.”

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Hello, fellow GEARheads. We’ve managed to get our hands on several invites for the sacred Google Wave preview. If you need an invite drop us a line and leave a comment including your e-mail address or follow us on Twitter and let us know! We’ll get one out to as many of you as possible.

Just a small disclaimer. The invites are not sent out immediately, Google might take their sweet time to send you the joyous e-mail. Want an invite? Let us know, we’ll add you to our nomination list!

Update: We’re fresh out of invites for now, but we’ll try and beg some more off of Google!

You’ve seen people practically offering their lives for invites, you’ve seen it trending on Twitter, but what is it? I know there are a lot of you out there who are still kinda unsure what Google Wave actually is and why it’s such a big deal.

The video above does a great job explaining what Google Wave actually is and why you should care.