Go Wave!

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:

Now create a new wave, add Invity & select which group you want to invite to the wave:

Click “Invite” & Invity takes care of the rest!

Invity makes the entire process simple & saves a lot of time!

Robot ID: pw-invity@appspot.com

Developed by: ProcessWave

Popularity: 18% [?]

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 selection in last 10 seconds. If the selected number matches with the one Gadget picks, 5 times of your bet amount will be added to your account. Every user will have $100 of fake money to start with & it changes as he wins/looses his bet.

Game Gadget URL: http://www.voizle.com/luckyyou.xml

Popularity: 13% [?]

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 different charts (Bar chart & Pie chart). “Log” shows complete history about which user voted for what. Once the polling is completed, admin (One who created the poll) can click on “Embed Charts” to show the results to other users.

Gadget XML: http://wave.samuirai.de/poll.xml

Popularity: 27% [?]

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 other participants of wave. The Gadget use Nimbb APIs to record & save the video. I don’t understand why gadget doesn’t provide video URL to share it outside wave also.

Gadget XML URL: http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/Nimbb.xml

Popularity: 22% [?]

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

Popularity: 29% [?]

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 with braces, like [url]. URL Freezer automatically replaces that URL with the freezed URL obtained from WebCite.

Robot ID: urlfreezer@appspot.com

Popularity: 11% [?]

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 wave. But one can’t add public@a.gwave.com as participant directly since it says “public@a.gwave.com is not a Google Wave account”. So, first add this wave id to your contact list, it will show the same message again, ignore that message & hit “Enter” key to add.

Now, since public@a.gwave.com is in your contact list, you can easily add it to any wave as participant. Once it is added, your wave goes “Public”!!

Popularity: 14% [?]

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 fetched from Google trends. Trendy can take up to 4 comma separated values. I found some difficulty using trendy as it’s not properly taking comma separated values. For example if I give ~~Google, Apple, graph is loading only for Google excluding Apple. Hope developer fixes it & it will be more smoother.

Robot ID: trendy-robot@appspot.com

Popularity: 12% [?]

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

Popularity: 24% [?]

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 Gadget XML: http://apps.technohippy.net/animal-shogi/gadget.xml

Popularity: 29% [?]