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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% [?]

Here is an awesome Google Wave robot which can do hell lot of stuff for you. “Buddy as a service” bot can perform websearch, news search, look for weather, translation, blog search….etc right inside a wave! Following are the commands which can be used with “Buddy as a friend”:

news:word – searches for news

web:word – websearch
blip:song – search for songs on blip.fm
weather:city [,country] [#lang] – get weather information and forecast
deli:tag [#pop] – tag search on delicious.com. Ordered by date, with #pop ordered by popularity
blog:word – blog search via twingly
micro:word – microblog search via twingly
tlate:word [@source] [#target] – translates the word from @source in #target, default #en, @ is optional
example:foo – gives you a bla for a foo

Some commands (news,web) can be combined with lang-codes, like #de, #en, #es etc:

news:hamburg #de
web:xmpp #de
A translation can have the source (@) and the target (#) language specified by tags
tlate:Wie gehts? @de #en
tlate:Wie gehts? @de #es
tlate:How do you do? #de

Bot ID: buddyasaservice@appspot.com

Popularity: 9% [?]

Now you need not to open new window to shorten a URL when you are on Google Wave. Bitly Bot gets the job done inside the wave itself. Add this bot to a wave & enter all the URLs which you want to shorten. Just after few seconds Bitly Bot posts all shortened URLs. Quite simple isn’t it? This bot can also be used as a bulk URL shortening tool, though it might take bit more time when the number of URLs are more.

BOT ID: bitly-bot@appspot.com

Popularity: 8% [?]

Google Wave gadget Brainstorming helps wave users shape their ideas collaboratively! It’s a simple idea tree which participants can add, edit, remove nodes. Brainstorming has different shapes & colors to make it look more interactive.

Gadget URL: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml

Popularity: 19% [?]