Graphy is an amazing bot which helps users to create graphs & flowcharts collaboratively. Add a marker #!dot inside anywhere inside the wave & graphy starts doing it’s job. Just after #!dot start typing expressions which needs to be converted into flowchart. For ex: a->b b->c c->d d->a c->e e->b creates a flowchart as shown in the picture.
Bot ID: graph-wave@appspot.com
Popularity: 24% [?]
One of the problem I have with wave is, I forget to check back at regular intervals. The reason being, still not many people from my contacts aren’t not on Google Wave. But this sometimes make me miss some interesting conversations. Google Wave Add-On for Firefox is Firefox addon which notifies user about new/unread waves. Install the add-on to Firefox & give your Google Wave credentials in settings. That’s it, add-on starts alerting you whenever there’s something new happening in a wave. Double clicking on the little wave icon in the status bar takes you to wave home page.
Get the add-on at ThatSmith
Popularity: 11% [?]
This is quite simple, PlusOne gadget adds “Thumbs Up” & “Thumbs Down” inside a wave. All the users on the wave will be able to vote it up or down. The gadget keeps track of all the votes.
Gadget URL: http://www.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml
Popularity: 18% [?]
Here is an awesome Google Wave robot which can do hell lot of stuff for you. “Buddy as a service” bot can perform websearch, news search, look for weather, translation, blog search….etc right inside a wave! Following are the commands which can be used with “Buddy as a friend”:
news:word – searches for news
web:word – websearch
blip:song – search for songs on blip.fm
weather:city [,country] [#lang] – get weather information and forecast
deli:tag [#pop] – tag search on delicious.com. Ordered by date, with #pop ordered by popularity
blog:word – blog search via twingly
micro:word – microblog search via twingly
tlate:word [@source] [#target] – translates the word from @source in #target, default #en, @ is optional
example:foo – gives you a bla for a fooSome commands (news,web) can be combined with lang-codes, like #de, #en, #es etc:
news:hamburg #de
web:xmpp #de
A translation can have the source (@) and the target (#) language specified by tags
tlate:Wie gehts? @de #en
tlate:Wie gehts? @de #es
tlate:How do you do? #de
Bot ID: buddyasaservice@appspot.com
Popularity: 9% [?]
Now you need not to open new window to shorten a URL when you are on Google Wave. Bitly Bot gets the job done inside the wave itself. Add this bot to a wave & enter all the URLs which you want to shorten. Just after few seconds Bitly Bot posts all shortened URLs. Quite simple isn’t it? This bot can also be used as a bulk URL shortening tool, though it might take bit more time when the number of URLs are more.
BOT ID: bitly-bot@appspot.com
Popularity: 8% [?]
One of the first things we do once we get Google Account is trying to figure out how to tweet from there!! No worries, there’s a Google Wave robot which makes it easy to Tweet from Wave. Just add Tweety, a Google Wave Robot to your wave & it takes care of rest. Tweety requires oAuth authentication, so make sure that you allow pop ups for Google Wave page. Once you allow pop ups, try reloading the wave & Twitter oAuth pop up appears. After authenticating with your Twitter account, Tweety loads “What are you doing?” text box. Just type & submit!
BOT ID: tweety-wave@appspot.com
Popularity: 59% [?]
Google Wave gadget Brainstorming helps wave users shape their ideas collaboratively! It’s a simple idea tree which participants can add, edit, remove nodes. Brainstorming has different shapes & colors to make it look more interactive.
Gadget URL: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml
Popularity: 19% [?]
XMPP Robot let’s users in wave to subscribe to that wave via IM. XMPP Bot notifies whenever there’s something new on the wave user has subscribed to in real time. All XMPP compatible IM clients including Google Talk, Pidgin are supported.
Robot ID: wave-xmpp@appspot.com
Popularity: 23% [?]
This Robot doesn’t require much of an explanation! Tagdef robot gives the definition of a #hashtag used in a wave in real time. Tagdef robot uses APIs of http://tagdef.com to look up for definitions for hashtags & adds it to wave right away. Check the screenshot for better understansing.
Robot ID: tagdef@appspot.com
Popularity: 6% [?]
Soundcloud player gadget for Google wave lets you play music from soundcloud.com. Get the link of a track from Soundcloud, put it in the URL text box & click “Set url”. That’s it, Soundcloud player starts playing the track which you have selected. User can also enter a user profile URL or a group URL also & in this case all the tracks on that page gets converted into a playlist. One really good feature which should have been there in this gadget is Co-Creating a playlist with individual track links. Which can let all users in a wave to add tracks & create a playlist. Hoping to see that feature in next update.
Gadget URL: http://wave-projects.googlecode.com/hg/gadgets/wave-soundcloud-player.xml
Popularity: 28% [?]
