Computer users are bombarded with different ways to stay connected to day from email to Twitter and other social networking sites. The only difference between many of the methods used to stay in touch online is the name attached to the service.

Google announced in May its new service called Google Wave that is trying to be a collaborative service combining features of email and chat with social networking. Wave is a collaborative environment where a user can create a document and then add people to the "wave" who can then directly contribute and modify the document. The Wave service has many other features as well.

At the time Google announced Wave it didn’t offer a time frame on when it would be offering Wave to users. Google has now announced that it will start a beta of the Wave service on September 30 that will allow 100,000 users into the beta offering.

If you are simply starving for the full details of the service, you can watch a video lasting over an hour at Engadget detailing Wave. You can sign up in hopes of being one of the 100,000 Wave converts here.