Google Wave Extensions

In August, Google announced that Wave would no longer be developed as a standalone product, but that the Wave technology would survive in other products. Today, I am happy announce the launch of Google Shared Spaces in Google Labs as one of those off-shoots.

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.

In this post I will try to discuss how communication between your robot and wave client works. This process is based on the event subscription model. What this means is that a robot has to specify what events it wants to listen and react to.

Robot development for Google Wave has sparked my imagination lately. The majority of Google Wave extensions are written using Java and Python but this article shows how to create a Google Wave robot in Coldfusion.

Google Wave extensions are basically a range of gadgets and doodads, which could be added to the Wave to improve its functionality. The Google Wave API (Application Programming Interface) supports two types of extensions - Robots and Gadgets. There are quite a few differences between the two.

ConceptDraw MindWave provides teams the opportunity to interactively collaborate on a mind map while building a map structure that represents the focus of collaboration. The mind map can then take full advantage of Google Wave playback.

Demonstrates how to use the Yes/No/Maybe gadget.
This tutorial is interactive and guided - this means that you can click through a simulated Google Wave UI and that the the next step in the process is indicated.

There are a handful of Google Wave gadgets designed to help you bring information from other sites into a wave and interact with that content collaboratively. I want to share a simple method for embedding arbitrary web pages inside a wave, a new third party extension called the Iframe Gadget

If you want to learn how to use Google Robots entirely, it's a good idea to learn how to stop Google robots from indexing pages using nofollow and follow rules. This is possible by setting meta details within your html.

During March, Google launched the Google Wave Extensions Gallery, which you can access by clicking 'Extensions' in the left sidebar. They are a great way to customize and improve your Wave experience, which, as you may know, is very important for any product. Think back to Firefox, although speed and stability was a winner during the beginning the browser continues to be a key player in the browser war mainly due to the large collection of great plug-ins. This is also the case for Google Chrome, and now, Google Wave.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to enable people who don't have a Google Wave account to participate in Google Wave? That has now become a reality thanks to a new robot that was recently announced by the WaveDOTto team. The robot is called Mr. Ray (mr-ray@appspot.com).

There are several URL Shortener services available for Google Wave. Within this list there are 2 gadgets that requires the user to trigger the event to shorten the URL. The other 2 references on this page are google wave robots. The key difference here being that the robot equivalents will shorten the URL automatically when they find a long URL.

A look at adding an extension into GoogleWave through the extension link within the google client. This article shows how to add the sudoku gadget into your wave.

In this tutorial, we'll build a gadget that manages a list of messages with the corresponding author images adjacent to each message. This tutorial is quite detailed and provides full code snippets throughout.

Currently Google Wave only supports Java and Python on the Google App Engine. Although Google will support further languages there is currently no date set for this update. This article gets your started with Google wave gadgets.

You can install the gadget as an extension. Doing so adds a little icon in the toolbar which you can click to get a new Voicy. Voicy is simply a voice recording tool, much like an old school answering machine but you can maintain multiple recordings for each participant within wave

I hope this sample will provide you enough information and details to get started with Google Wave robot development using .Net. I will post some more samples to demonstrate more advanced features of this framework.

This gadget allows you to get the last 10 recent photos from the flickr photostream. It also allows you to refresh the photos asynchronously. I'll publish this gadget to the official Wave Gadget library after I've added a few more features.

Receiving notification of changes to state is done by registering a callback function. However, it's up to the Gadget's code to work out what has actually changed, you don't get notification about which properties have been modified.

This tutorial shows how to write a Google Wave Robot using Version 2 of the Wave Robot API.

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.

Coming from a background in creative advertising, I see a lot of potential for Google Wave to make everyday tasks more efficient and enjoyable. Now, I want to share one of my ideas for how developers can make my own life easier.

This page introduces some robot basics for use within Google Wave, including how robots are set up, where they are hosted, and how they're identified to Google Wave clients. This article also details a robot's capabilities and how meta information is attached to the robot, via profiles.

Robots are an important part of the Google Wave API, and they've just become a lot more powerful. This article highlights a bunch of new features available within version 2.0 of the Google Wave robots API.

The biggest feature in the newest release of the Google Wave Robots API is the Active API. This enables developers to create pre-programmed responses to certain external events, removing the need for the Cron API, which is far less desirable. Now, reactions to any external source of information can be programmed in advance.

Use Google Wave to send content to your blog. The Posterous-Robot allows you to easily manage blog page creations within Google Wave. The Posterous API allows you to send photos, videos and many other forms of media through Google Wave to your Blog.

After some experimentation with Google Wave I've created this list of 7 extensions for Google Wave currently in use. So lets start with what a wave extension is. Wave extensions provide the ability to augment the functionality of waves and the wave client. Currently, the Wave API supports the following extensions.

A detailed look into Google Wave and how the framework allows anyone to be a Google Wave provider due to it's open source nature. This article also looks at some key user events available to the Wave developer and how different logic can be executed within the wave, for example, events exist to monitor when participants leave the conversation.

This is a small Google Wave robot that interacts with Salesforce.com to display contacts, accounts and opportunities. Simply follow the video and add the robot (sfdcwavebot@appspot.com) to your contacts.

Article on code highlighting for developers out there using Google Wave. The following steps demonstrate how to enjoy syntax highlighting within your waves. This is made possible with the use of the kasyntaxy@appspot.com robot.