Go Wave!

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.

Popularity: 3% [?]

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% [?]

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.

Popularity: 22% [?]

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% [?]

One of the first things we do once we get Google Account is trying to figure out how to tweet from there!!  No worries, there’s a Google Wave robot which makes it easy to Tweet from Wave. Just add Tweety, a Google Wave Robot to your wave & it takes care of rest. Tweety requires oAuth authentication, so make sure that you allow pop ups for Google Wave page. Once you allow pop ups, try reloading the wave & Twitter oAuth pop up appears. After authenticating with your Twitter account, Tweety loads “What are you doing?” text box. Just type & submit!

BOT ID: tweety-wave@appspot.com

Popularity: 59% [?]