Google Wave gets own app store

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Google Wave will likely have an application store for developers to sell their creations.

This is according to Google Wave co-developer Lars Rasmussen, who told Tech Radar that such a system was likely to happen.

"So we haven't 100 per cent locked this in, but all the developers are asking [about paid-for apps]," Rasmussen told the site.

"[D]evelopers have asked us a lot for a marketplace where we'll help them sell their extensions to our users including a revenue share so we'll also make some money from it," he added. "I'll be very surprised if we don't go down that route."

Scalability issues

Google Wave was unveiled earlier this summer, with invites for users to try the beta trickling through over the past two months.

Rasmussen said that there have been more than two million requests to join the list, which could take two months to get through, because of scalability issues.

"I don't think we should be the one denying people access if they want it," he said. "But the reason we aren't letting more people in is almost exclusively scalability – currently we cant actually handle [opening it up to public]."

The web tool looks to bring together social networking and email, and allows add-on, third-party applications. It's expected to arrive in late 2010.

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