Are you waving with same set of people again & again? And tired up adding them into new waves again & again? Invity is the perfect solution for you. Invity saves current participants of a wave into group which can be used later to add an entire group into a new wave. Invity helps in [...]
Lucky You is a gambling game for Google wave which can be played for fun with friends. Participant has to bet on a number (0-9) with money he wants to bet. Gadget allows user to select a number within 30 seconds & randomly selects a number 10 seconds after that. So, user can’t make any [...]
We have already come across many robots & gadgets which lets you add polling to wave. I must say this one beats all of them! Poll Gadget lets you add/remove options & create a poll. Results will be showed as soon as somebody votes. Poll Gadget uses Google chart APIs to represent the data in [...]
Nimbb gadget for Google wave allows user to record & share videos from webcam. Once it is added to wave, flash based gadget requests for the access to webcam. User can then record the video & stop when done. Video can be played back before saving, once saved video will be automatically made available to [...]
XO5 is a variation of game tic-tac-toe on google wave. As the name itself says, ‘X’ is for first player, ‘O’ is for second player & whoever reaches 5 in a row wins!
Game gadget URL: http://dizbits.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xo5/xo5.xml
Most of the web pages on internet are dynamic & inconsistent. The page which you referred today, might not be available tomorrow. Or content of that page might get changed. URL Freezer robot for Google wave uses WebCite to freeze a URL for future reference. Add this robot & enter the URL in any blip [...]
Public waves are accessible by anyone who is having a Google wave account. Wave user can search for public waves by using keyword “with:public” in the search box.
Waves are private by default, only the participants can have access to the wave. To make a wave public, user has to add public@a.gwave.com as participant to that [...]
It’s quite common that we debate on products, companies & lot of other stuff over chat & email. Trendy is really helpful when you are having that kind of a conversation. Add “Trendy” to wave & type items separated by commas which you want to compare trends ex: ~~Android, iPhone. Trendy replaces this with graph [...]
Unlike other poll/vote gadgets “Pick Several” allows user to select multiple choices & vote. Gadget updates number of votes right away when user selects the option. This gadget is useful to run “Select all that applicable” kind of voting system.
Gadget XML: http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/pickseveral.gadget.xml
Animal Shogi (also known as Dobutsu Shogi) is the simplified version of Shogi (Japanese Chess) created to attract children to play it. To know more about the game you can check this Wikipedia entry. A gadget has been created by ANDO Yasushi to bring Animal Shogi to Google Wave. Add this gadget & start playing.
Game [...]
It’s been quite a while since we all started using Google Wave. Many said it’s over-hyped, many found it as a chat client, many said they don’t have anyone to wave with & many stopped logging into wave saying it’s no longer interesting. But I don’t know what’s with me! I keep finding new & interesting new stuff on Google wave. This post shows how you can embed a fully functional Google Wave into any wordpress blog! It also shows how powerful Google Wave is & amazing possibilities of it.
To embed wave into Wordpress blog, I used a plugin called “Embed Wave”. All you need to do is install this plugin & use embed shortcode in your posts or pages to embed wave. Sample wave shortcode looks like [wave id="waveID"], just placing this tag anywhere inside your blog post or page will embed that particular wave! So, let's see how...
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Are you waving with same set of people again & again? And tired up adding them into new waves again & again? Invity is the perfect solution for you. Invity saves current participants of a wave into group which can be used later to add an entire group into a new wave. Invity helps in managing your contacts in groups & makes it easy to invite them all in one shot to a new wave.
Just add Invity to your wave & it loads a new blip giving you option to name the group & save:
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When I started the blog, I created a form to submit Gadgets & Robots to review. I was regularly checking that spreadsheet & nothing was submitted in initial days. Gradually I stopped looking into it. Today I opened it after a long time & surprised to see so many review requests. I’m really sorry for this, I have now set email notification for each submission. So, I won’t missout on any submission from now on.
If you are one of those who submitted Gadget/Robot for...
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It’s been quite a while since we all started using Google Wave. Many said it’s over-hyped, many found it as a chat client, many said they don’t have anyone to wave with & many stopped logging into wave saying it’s no longer interesting. But I don’t know what’s with me! I keep finding new & interesting new stuff on Google wave. This post shows how you can embed a fully functional Google Wave into any wordpress blog! It also shows how powerful Google Wave...
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This is an unofficial blog completely dedicated for Google Wave. Aim of this blog is to keep updating about development of Google Wave, cover all Robots & Gadgets. It is easy to keep track of new Robots & Gadgets by checking \"Robots\" & \"Gadgets\" categories of this blog.
