Posts Tagged ‘community’

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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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Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow the Waves You Choose

In Post on 2009-11-12 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

Prob­a­bly the most impor­tant part of the Wave expe­ri­ence for new user has been the abil­ity to search for pub­lic waves to join. With­out Pub­lic Waves many peo­ple would not have enough of a net­work to really expe­ri­ence Wave in full, and the Wave com­mu­nity may not have grown as quickly as it has. Pub­lic Waves have allowed quick access to tips and tricks, unof­fi­cial sup­port and gen­eral chit chat on a diverse range of topics.

The down­side of this was a sig­nif­i­cant gotcha: just click­ing a pub­lic wave was enough to add you to the Wave per­ma­nently and drag the wave into your inbox. From that point, your only recourse to silence the wave was to mute it (archiv­ing only works as long as no one else con­tributes), and mut­ing does not remove you from the wave.

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Google Wave Invite Community

In Link on 2009-10-02 by Joshua Tagged: ,

Let’s face it, most of us we’re absolutely thrilled when we could jump on Gmail when it first arrived. The rebirth of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is here and this time its wav­ing at you! Visit us often and get involved in our forums for ways to get your hands on your own Google Wave invitation.

Cre­at­ing a com­mu­nity for Google Wave invites and more!