Norton SafeWave robot validates links inside wave against Norton SafeWeb API & finds out whether the link is safe. SafeWave helps keep the wave clean from phishing links, malware/infected sites. SafeWave keep checking for links in blips & adds a tiny icon after validating a link.
Robot ID: nortonwave@appspot.com
Popularity: 12% [?]
Wave to Tweeps replaces @username with Twitter User badge with latest tweet of that user. Just add the bot to wave & it keeps an eye on every blip & resolves to twitter user whenever @username used in a blip.
Robot ID: wavetotweeps@appspot.com
Popularity: 13% [?]
Collaborative Sudoku lets wave participants to play Sudoku collaboratively! Gadgets stores user’s contribution in completing Sudoku. It keeps track of right & wrong entries made by a user & ranks a user based on that. So, it displays ranks of users playing Sudoku based on their participation. “Updates” shows whether a user filled the right or wrong number by displaying Username with +1 or -1.
Game Gadget XML URL: http://blah.appspot.com/wave/sudoku/sudoku.xml
Popularity: 26% [?]
Polly is quite different from other Robots. Adding polly to a wave creates administrative interface for a poll. Just like creating any other poll add tittle, question & choices to your poll. But, you shouldn’t add participants to this wave, this wave is for administration of wave & preferably only you should have access. Instead of adding users to the wave, you need to add them in “Recipients” field of the poll separated by commas. Once done, click on “Distribute Poll” & poll will be sent to all recipients as a new wave. Recipients can alter their choice later. Statistics of the poll will be added to administrative wave.
Robot ID: polly-wave@appspot.com
Popularity: 44% [?]
Napkin adds free hand sketching ability to Google Wave. Participants of wave can collaboratively create “back of a napkin” sketches using Napkin. It’s fun using napkin with friends & play around with it!
Gadget XML URL: http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml
Popularity: 37% [?]
Google Wave implementation of Pick-up sticks. All the participants in a wave can play this game simultaneously. User has to remove sticks from the board to gain points. User loose points whenever he/she tries to remove sticks below other stick.
Game Gadget XML URL: http://wave.bryanbibat.com/pick-up-sticks.xml
Popularity: 22% [?]
Character Entity replaces HTML character entity reference codes like “&alpha ;” with ?. This makes it easy to type special characters into wave. You can find complete list of HTML character entity reference codes in this Wikipedia entry.
Robot ID: character-entity@appspot.com
Popularity: 12% [?]
MyTweet helps user to browse tweets of a Twitter User inside wave. Once the gadget is added, it asks for twitter username & number of tweets to load. As per the inputs, gadget loads tweets of that particular user.
Gadget XML URL: http://haru1ban-wave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter/twitter.xml
Popularity: 16% [?]
Embeddy generates embed code for a wave & lets you embed the wave into any web page. Just add Embeddy to the wave which you want to generate embed code. Embeddy loads a gadget inside wave giving you options to select dimensions & colors of the embed. Once done, just copy paste the generated embed code to any web page to display this wave. The embedded wave will be live, I mean you can see people typing! But those who don’t have Google Wave account can’t see this embedded wave.
Bot ID: embeddy@appspot.com
Popularity: 100% [?]
Dr.Music is the second robot Go-Wave is writing about after Lasty. Dr.Music can fetch what a last.fm user currently listening to, which is similar lasty. But Dr.Music has an added feature, it can check compatibility between two users. Dr.Music fetches compatibility score & common artists which makes it look more colorful.
Two commands which can be used with Dr.Music are:
1. @dr-track-USERID for last track
2. @dr-comp-ID1-ID2 for music compatibility
Robot ID: dr-music@appspot.com
Popularity: 19% [?]
