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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:

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]

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% [?]