Remember good old Yahoo! public chat rooms? Retro chat brings that kind of old fashioned chat room to Google Wave! Just add all your buddies & start retro chatting!!! I know this is going back in time, but it’s fun!!
Gadget XML URL: http://wave-retro-chat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/chat.xml
Popularity: 25% [?]
Google Wave maps gadget lets participants of a wave to collaboratively edit map using markers & other tools. Participants can add tittle & description to their markers. Edits by a user will be visible to other participants once user clicks save. This gadget is very different from Trippy. This gadget is multi purpose which you can play around to share your place, route etc with friends. But, Trippy is more concentrated on planning a trip, creating an itinerary ..etc.
Though options to access Google My Maps & save created map to Google My Maps should have been awesome.
Gadget XML URL: http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/gadgets/mappy/mappy.xml
Popularity: 21% [?]
Likey gadget adds Like/Dislike links to any blip you want. Likey collects & displays how many liked & how many disliked a blip. An user can also change his/her selection anytime. This is quite similar to other voting gadgets, but very simple.
Gadget XML URL: http://www.nebweb.com.au/wave/likey.xml
Popularity: 17% [?]
IMDBotty converts IMDB movie links in a wave into gadget with details like title, rating, director, actors…etc. This bot is really helpful while discussing about movies over wave!
Bot ID: imdbotty@appspot.com
Video Demo:
Popularity: 16% [?]
On the sandbox account we were able to see status of a buddy with the help of a little green dot. Google pulled this feature off on the Google Wave preview since it caused them some problems. Now, it’s back on the Google Wave preview also!! So now you can know who is online & start waving with them.
Popularity: 15% [?]
QRDataBot generates & inserts QR image code for all the links posted inside a wave. This robot can also be used for bulk QR code image generation, post list of links & the bot generates QR image code for all of them.
Bot ID: qrdatabot@appspot.com
Popularity: 7% [?]
Notify Google Wave robot notifies everyone in a wave about the changes in wave via email. Once added to a wave, Notify sends an email to all participants with a link to notification preferences (as in above screenshot). Participant can subscribe/un-subscribe to email notification. If subscribed, Notify sends an email whenever the wave is updated by any other users/participants. This Robot is very useful at least until wave completely takes over email!
Bot ID: wave-email-notifications@appspot.com
Popularity: 51% [?]
As the name itself says, Lasty is a last.fm bot which fetches what an user is currently listening to. Just add the bot & type LastFmUserName-is-listening anywhere inside the wave. For ex: typing “hnprashanth-is-listening” will fetch what I’m listening to right now & adds it to the wave as in the above screenshot.
Bot ID: last-robot@appspot.com
Popularity: 16% [?]
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% [?]
