Posts Tagged ‘bots’

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Submitty and Gadgitty — Two Bots to Help Wave Developers

In Post on 2010-03-02 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

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.

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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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Karma: A Way to Keep Wavers In Line?

In Link on 2010-02-04 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

Here’s a neat lit­tle gadget/bot combo that could prove very use­ful for pub­lic waves if the sys­tem caught on.

Add the Karma Gad­get and Bot to your waves and use it to rate your users (out of five stars). If users get con­sis­tently low scores, they will be auto­mat­i­cally kicked from Waves that choose to turn on this option.

Karma Rating Gadget

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Wave To Posterous

In Link on 2009-11-10 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

Google fan Lookon has cre­ated a Bot to post to his Pos­ter­ous blog, and writ­ten detailed instruc­tions on how to do it.

It’s straight for­ward enough, add the bot and log in to the form it gives you. The next time you add the bot to a wave, the first wavelet gets posted at Pos­ter­ous and it returns the URL for you to check.

Pos­ter­ous seems to have the most diverse post­ing options of any blog­ging soft­ware avail­able, and the addi­tion of post­ing from waves puts it again at the forefront.

Now the bot needs to mon­i­tor com­ments and return them to the orig­i­nal wave for even tighter integration.

How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Pos­ter­ous [West­ern Bridge over Google Wave]

(via Ker­rie Anne’s Fridge Mag­nets)

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Trick or Treat [Extension]

In Link on 2009-11-01 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

First, the exten­sion installer gives you an option in your New Wave menu to “Go Trick or Treat­ing”. When you click that, it cre­ates a new wave and inserts a gad­get (try click­ing around that to see what sur­prises await). Then, when­ever a user types ‘trick or treat’, the robot fetches an image from Google Image Search for either a yummy candy bar, or well, some­thing not that yummy.

From the Google Wave Devel­oper Blog

No one I know has ever cel­e­brated Hal­loween (it’s rel­a­tively new in Aus­tralia), and I say “Bah hum­bug!” (wrong hol­i­day I know). But for those of you who want to get into the spirit of it (bad pun I know), but don’t want to leave Wave, this might be for you.

Trick or Treat Extension

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Add characters quickly to a wave

In Link on 2009-10-27 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

Wave has a WYSIWYG inter­face for styling your blips. For those of us used to work­ing on the web how­ever, the default Bold/Italic/Dot-point tools can leave a lot to be desired. Many wont have a char­ac­ter pal­let handy, or remem­ber the windows/mac key­board codes for pro­duc­ing var­i­ous glyphs either. But if you’ve worked on the web long enough, you might be famil­iar with HTML/unicode char­ac­ter enti­ties such as & (&) and • (•).

If you need to add var­i­ous char­ac­ters to your waves, and are famil­iar with HTML enti­ties, then the Char­ac­ter Entity bot might be what you need. Add character-entity@appspot.com to your wave, and when­ever you write a char­ac­ter (in the for­mat &code;) the bot will hap­pily con­vert the code into the cor­rect char­ac­ters for you.

Here are a few to try:

  • © becomes ©
  • ↔ becomes ?
  • ∴ becomes ?

(A more detailed list can be found at Intu­itive Sys­tems)

Char­ac­ter Entity Bot [Google Code]

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Emaily: An important first step.

In Post on 2009-10-18 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

Emaily is a bot that sends an email alert for every new blip in a spec­i­fied wave.

If your main inbox is your email inbox then this bot could be an impor­tant part of your wave test­ing, at least until Wave catches on with more of your per­sonal net­work. Instead of keep­ing Wave open all day, have this bot send you a ping when any­one updates the impor­tant waves.

One day though I hope to see the flow reversed, and email will flow in and out of Wave instead.

Emaily [Wave Sam­ple Gallery]

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Votely — Votes for public Waves

In Link on 2009-10-18 by Joshua Tagged: ,

Using the WaveVotely bot, peo­ple can vote on which pub­lic waves are use­ful or fun. The results are col­lated at the Waverz site.

Votely — Votes for pub­lic Waves

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Embed and Extend

The Google Wave APIs come in two fla­vors: Embed and Exten­sions. With Embed, you’re able to bring waves into your own site through a sim­ple JavaScript API. For exam­ple, embed­ding a wave in a web­page is a good way to encour­age a dis­cus­sion among the vis­i­tors. With Exten­sions, you’re able to write pro­grams, which are pack­aged as Robots or Gad­gets, that pro­vide rich func­tion­al­ity inside the Google Wave web client.

Intro­duc­ing the Google Wave APIs

Posted 2009-06-05 by Joshua

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Wave the Platform

In Post on 2009-06-05 by Joshua Tagged: , , , , ,

This is Google Wave as a Plat­form, one of the “Three Ps” of the Wave. The API gives devel­op­ers a way to plug in to the Wave prod­uct and offer new and inter­est­ing ways of using waves. For instance at the pre­view, a soft­ware robot devel­oped using the API could be added to a con­ver­sa­tion to trans­late your waves in real-time into other languages.

I’ll be cov­er­ing more of the ways the API can be used in later posts, but for now I’ll say it’s pow­er­ful way to make an already com­pelling prod­uct even more useful.

Google wants devel­op­ers cre­at­ing value to add to their prod­uct on day one. Hope­fully some­one enter­pris­ing will use the API to bridge the gap between email and waves unless Google does it first.