Google Wave Tutorials

This tutorial is for those looking to read up on Google Wave. This tutorial is suitable for absolute beginners to Google Wave.

Google Wave offers a number of benefits over traditional forum software, with just its native functionality. By incorporating some of the tried-and-tested features from forums into a robot, Google Wave could become the ultimate platform for forum-based discussion.

Nice tutorial for those looking to learn more about Gadgets. Gadgets are add-ons that can complement types of conversations. Gadgets are xml files that identify what 'Gadgets' can and can't do.

This article shows how to post comments to Twitter using a Google Wave Gadget called Tweety The Twitbot. Readers will learn how to add any generic Google Wave Gadget into a Wave they're participanting in. All steps are illustrated with the use of screens shot and a short description of what actions are needed.

Beginner tutorial looking at Google Wave and more specifically what a Wave is within this new framework. This tutorial is ideal for someone looking to learn about Google Wave.

Google Wave provides real-time, concurrent, simultaneous user collaboration online. This article is non-technical and identifies how Google Wave allows for better communication within team environments.

A look under the hood at robots within Google Wave. This tutorial is ideal for those looking to learn more about Google Wave and robots. A robot can be thought of as a friend watching your back as you type to a friend within a conversation. Robots can correct grammatical and spelling errors whilst you type.

A look at Google Wave and what it represents from a system design perspective. This article references Google Wave differently to good or bad but from what this framework represents.

This tutorial is for those looking to learn some of the new and key terms to be used within Google Wave. Learning Wave terms in vital to understanding what Google Wave is.

A nice article on Google Wave detailing some of the features available to the Google Wave user, including some keystrokes, advanced operators and saved searches.

A list of the key Google Wave robots out there at the moment. Wave robots listed include Tweety, an interesting robot to automate Wave to post them to Twitter, removing the need to add hundreds of participants within the Wave. This list also mentions the Dr Maps robot.

This tutorial on Google Wave demonstrates how to add robots into your Google Wave client. In this tutorial we use Sweepy the robot to remove empty blips within a Wave although the principles illustrated can be applied to any robot within Google Wave.

This tutorial describes how robots can interact with the user to create form and orchestrate workflows.

What is a Google Wave Robot and how or why do they exist? A non technical article in general with some references to some techy terms about what's under the hood with robots and gadgets together with some examples and reasons for their existence within the Google Wave framework.

A look at Wave usage for a family. Article shows how Google Wave can be embraced to keep families more in touch and how being in constant communication can aid all members of the family for the greater good.

Article explaining how to insert Wave Gadget's into a Wave via a Robot. This example shows how a robot as a participant of the Wave can replace any given ISBN within a Blip with the actual thumbnail image of the book itself in real-time.

It was extremely difficult to find extensions, and the interface was messy and cluttered although all that changes from today. Google have now created a “Featured Apps” section to the gallery, in which it will feature extensions the Google Wave team thinks are "particularly useful".

This is a simple to follow tutorial on how to create an extension that other Google Wave users can install and use in their waves. We will create a simple gadget extension that will list some blog names and when the user clicks on a name, the latest posts from the blog selected will be displayed in the wave

An article to illustrate a Wave robot, written in Python as opposed to the majority of existing robots being written in Java. In this example the robot inserts an image into your message, also referred to as a Blip using the OnBlipSubmitted event.

A look at Gmail, Google Docs and Google Wave to see whether or not they can coexist together as one service within the future. Questions and answers are taken from the recent conference with Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google.

A look into the two the Google Wave API that come in two flavors, namely Embed and Extensions. This article demonstrates the difference between the two flavors and their uses.

An article provided by the BBC identifying what are the main distinctions between Google Wave, traditional email and chat software currently available on the Internet. This article includes a 2 minute video, written by Jane Wakefield, a BBC technical writer.

Using a Google Wave robot to replace any instance of the word 'Java' to illustrate how robots can add functionality to a wave. Full code samples provided within this article. Any number of robots can be added into a conversation.

This video is aimed towards people that have already used APIs in general, and have previously created gadgets and robots before. This presentation, featuring Pamela Fox and Michael Goderbauer demonstrates how to make extensions better and more usable.

A look into what happens when you delete a Google Wave within your account and for how long Google holds your data for. Google's FAQ states Wave data is deleted after 60 days before being archived into their offline storage. There is currently no statement for how long Google holds your offline data for!

We are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs from now! You no longer need an invitation to wave - simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in!

A look at how Google Wave could lead to real-time content management systems with teams of people collaborating together at the same time.

A good article highlighting the steps required to create your first Google Wave robot. Screen shots included, this example us using Intellij Maia, version 9 to create the robot.

Writing your first robot using the Eclipse SDK. Right now, with little documentation out there it's hard work creating a robot and this article details my day of trials, errors and guest work to get a simple robot working.

A substantial list of Wave Gadgets and tools currently available for Google Wave. Gadgets listed include Emoticony, Cartoony, Bit.ly-bot, Map Gadget, TwilioBot and many others.