Few weeks ago Google made wave publicly available, means that everyone who has Gmail account can login to wave! Google had also announced that wave will be open for Google Apps account users. But there was no clue about how to enable it. I myself digged through Google Apps admin interface after that announcement for no luck. But now, you can easily enable Google wave on your Google Apps account.

Just login to Google Apps admin dashboard & click on “Add more services”. You will see something like above screenshot, just click on “Add it now” and you are good to go! Just hit https://wave.google.com/a/YourDomainName in your browser to start using wave with your Google Apps account.

Google wave goes public today! No invites required! Today Google has announced it on Google Wave Official blog. Fact is that, many of the users who were already there on wave have stopped using it. We need to wait and see if going public makes any difference to it. It also decides future of this blog!

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

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

When I started the blog, I created a form to submit Gadgets & Robots to review. I was regularly checking that spreadsheet & nothing was submitted in initial days. Gradually I stopped looking into it. Today I opened it after a long time & surprised to see so many review requests. I’m really sorry for this, I have now set email notification for each submission. So, I won’t missout on any submission from now on.

If you are one of those who submitted Gadget/Robot for review, expect a review within a week.

It’s been quite a while since we all started using Google Wave. Many said it’s over-hyped, many found it as a chat client, many said they don’t have anyone to wave with & many stopped logging into wave saying it’s no longer interesting. But I don’t know what’s with me! I keep finding new & interesting new stuff on Google wave. This post shows how you can embed a fully functional Google Wave into any wordpress blog! It also shows how powerful Google Wave is & amazing possibilities of it.

To embed wave into Wordpress blog, I used a plugin called “Embed Wave”. All you need to do is install this plugin & use embed shortcode in your posts or pages to embed wave. Sample wave shortcode looks like [wave id="waveID"], just placing this tag anywhere inside your blog post or page will embed that particular wave! So, let's see how can you get ID of a particular wave. Open the wave which you want to embed & you can see URL something similar to this one https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BuZyfqdMVC.3. Let's take the part after !w, which is %252BuZyfqdMVC.3. In this, %252B represents '+' symbol in HTML, so let's remove that & also remove the .3, I don't know what it represents. Remaining is uZyfqdMVC which is the wave ID I should use.

So, If I write [wave id="uZyfqdMVC"] inside my blogpost or page, that particular wave gets embedded. Embed Wave plugin allows to embed multiple waves into one blogpost. If you wish, you can make this particular wave public to enable access to anyone having wave account. Otherwise, even if you embed it outside the Google Wave, only the ones who are participants of that wave will be able to see it.

There is one more WP plugin called WP-Wave-Shortcodes which gives you more options like, to select height & width of the embed etc. For whatever reason it didn't work for me. If you find this entire process tough, you can refer to embeddy bot which makes it really simple.

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

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

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

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