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This is just a quick update to let everybody know about what the Next Agenda team has been doing. We spent a lot of the summer working with the Breakthrough Institute, covering their inaugural Breakthrough Dialogue conference, "Modernizing Liberalism." The conference, which was put on in conjunction with launch of a new journal, brought together dozens of top thinkers from a range of disciplines to figure out new ideas that could adapt liberalism to today's realities.

We are happy to see that Google Wave has found a new home with the Apache Foundation, the open source community that is the keeper of the flame for Apache servers that run much of the web. The Foundation also has other software projects, and developing the Wave code apparently will be one of them. Read all about it here. 

As some of you may have heard, Google last week made a surprise decision to stop developing Google Wave at the end of this year. At Next Agenda, we are very disappointed by this news.

More than 200 Innovators Kick Off Next Agenda’s Clean Energy Challenge

We have big news to report that Next Agenda is now one of the first and few organizations in the world to be able to use the new Google Wave platform, a real breakthrough in scaling up online collaboration. After much anticipation in technology circles, Google just opened access to the beta tool in October with 100,000 accounts, and Next Agenda will soon have as many of them as we need for our network of participants helping to figure out the Clean Energy Challenge. The general public release is expected in the spring or summer of 2010.