In Post on 2010-03-05 by Joshua
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Name: Joshua Nunn
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About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: addon, direction, email, new feature, official help
One of the problems with Google Wave for the non-geek crowd has been how you know you have a new wave?
For dedicated geeks, there are browser extensions, OS specific software, iPhone Push notifications, and more.
But most of these don’t figure in the non-geek arsenal for managing the wash of information from the internet. And for regular folk convincing them to use Wave without these sorts of notifications will be hard simply because they don’t want to bother checking for new waves as well as new emails.
Convincing them may have just gotten easier however with the release of integrated email notifications for your Wave inbox. In a post on the official Google Wave Blog, Ged Ellis explains how to turn on email notifications for new waves. Using the drop down list next to the inbox link (it’s hidden until you hover over it) you can choose an email address to have notifications sent to. The tool even picked my Google Apps email even though it’s not my official Wave address because I’ve set it as primary in my Google profile.
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In Link on 2010-03-03 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78)
In my post yesterday I noted the increased push by the Wave developers to make it easier for the wave community to build and deploy extensions. It turns out this flurry of activity coincided with the imminent release of Version 2 of the Wave API, announced today.
The first new feature is the:
Active API: In v2, robots can now push information into waves (without having to wait to respond to a user action). This replaces the need for our deprecated cron API, as now you can update a wave when the weather changes or the stock price falls below some threshold. You can learn more in the Active API docs.
Google Wave Developer Blog Announcement.
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In Post on 2010-03-02 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: bots, extensions, gadgets, official help
Recently, the Wave Team have made a big push to publicise more bots and extensions. In a post to the Google Wave Help forum, Kylie announced that some users might start seeing a new Extensions link in their navigation panel. Then enterprising Wavers noted that anyone could get access to this Extension information with a search for [group:google-wave-extension-gallery@googlegroups.com].
Now Google have made it easier than ever to submit an extension to the Wave Extension review team using a simple bot.
Create a new wave and add the Submitty bot (submitty-bot@appspot.com), and Submitty will create a submission form for you to fill out. At the bottom are a couple of checkboxes. If you check either of these boxes, you’ll be prompted to fill in more information about your bot and/or gadget. Finally, you add the Extension Review Group (google-wave-extensions-review@googlegroups.com) to your wave to submit your extension.
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We have begun testing remove participant internally and hopefully it will hit externally within a month
Lars Rasmussen, one of the lead Wave developers.
In a Wave entitled “Google Wave User Black List”, Lars piped up to offer advice on the best way to avoid and take action against known trolls and abusers and offered the above titbit about the imminent release of the ability to remove participants from Wave.
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Posted 2010-02-13 by Joshua
In Post on 2010-01-31 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: blogging, client, embed, future, interface, opensource, use case
Want to share a public wave with someone who hasn’t jumped on the Wave bandwagon? Need to publish a Wave in a way that keeps it safe from editors and wanna-be trolls? How ’bout this Wave Reader that takes a wave and displays it as a web page without the reader needing an account.
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In Post on 2010-01-23 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: editing, interface, new feature, official help
In the first major update to the Google Wave client in what feels like ages, the Wave team have implemented two new features that will make a big difference in managing your waves. The first fixes one of the most shocking things about the first release: that anyone you invited could come along and edit any part of your wave. Of course the point of Wave is collaboration, but sometimes it was conceivable that you might not like anyone to be able to hack away at a wave, particularly once a wave was made public. Many good useful waves were effectively destroyed by granting the public editing rights.
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In Link on 2009-12-09 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: new feature, official help, preview
Google has just unveiled their plans for group waves. The Google Wave Blog outlines the steps to set up a Google Group (yes, you have to use another tool) then add the group as a contact in Google Wave.
The service does not yet allow you to add users by their googlewave.com account (gmail.com only), and the permissions can only be handled through the Google Groups interface. It also seems that to avoid spam (being able to send messages to an everyone in a public group at once) users must pro-actively seek out the group wave and follow it to move it to their inbox [currently waiting for confirmation of this].
Like any Wave feature, this is still being developed and its behaviour could change over time. The Wave team have said they will continue to enhance the groups feature to make groups easier to navigate.
Waving with groups — Google Wave Blog.
In Link on 2009-12-05 by JoshuacloseAuthor: Joshua
Name: Joshua Nunn
Site: http://www.joshnunn.com.au
About: Joshua Nunn (@joshnunn) is a tech at a large high school who likes to keep on top of new technology as it emerges. He believes Google Wave is the only technology advancement that has a real chance to supplant email as the dominant form of communication on the web, and so is pretty excited to follow it as it grows.See Authors Posts (78) Tagged: client, extensions, tip
If like me you find Chrome gives you the most stable, enjoyable experience of Google Wave, you might also be pining for the notifier extension Firefox users get.
Well now Chrome has a neat little extension that does the same thing. Jeremy Selier has built a neat little plugin that shows you how many unread waves you have in your inbox. It checks every thirty minutes by default (at the request of the Wave team), but you can set it to check more frequently in the extension options.
Something that makes a sound, or pops up a notification box (Growl-style) would be even more useful in some circumstances (Firefox is still my main browser of choice). However, if you need a simple way to see new Wave activity without checking the window every couple of minutes, this might just be the thing.
Chrome Extension — Google Wave Checker
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