Gadget extensions, Google Wave

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.

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

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

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.

7 minute video demonstrating how to create a Google Wave gadget using Flex. This video is part 5 of 5. This video is idealy for anyone looking to start using Flex to developer for Google Wave.

8 minute video demonstrating how to create a Google Wave gadget using Flex. This video is part 4 of 5. This video is idealy for anyone looking to start using Flex to developer for Google Wave.

8 minute video demonstrating how to create a Google Wave gadget using Flex. This video is part 3 of 5. This video is idealy for anyone looking to start using Flex to developer for Google Wave.

7 minute video demonstrating how to create a Google Wave gadget using Flex. This video is part 2 of 5. This video is idealy for anyone looking to start using Flex to developer for Google Wave.

7 minute video demonstrating how to create a Google Wave gadget using Flex. This video is part 1 of 5. This video is idealy for anyone looking to start using Flex to developer for Google Wave.

In this article I explain why you might want to consider the use of Adobe Flex for developing your Google Wave Gadgets. According to Adobe, the Flash player reaches 99% of all the internet-enabled PCs all over the world. Adobe Flex builder 3 and Adobe Flash Builder Beta are the preferred Integrated Development Environments for writing applications in Flex.

The Google Wave Gadget API emulation layer allows you to run demo gadgets for Google Wave side by side within two iframes. The API emulator allows you to debug gadgets without the need to access to the Google Wave sandbox.

When users add a new object in the editor, it calls separate methods to add and update the attributes of the nodes. When one participant is done creating an object the gadgets state is updated with a JSON string representing all the attributes.

A list of 18 really useful extensions for Google Wave whilst this new framework is still in beta. Extensions include URL shortening, Map Clusters, AmazonBot and many more gadgets to be used within Google Wave.

Here's a simple easy-to-use guide on how to install a Google Wave gadget extension. Robots are more similar to the bots you see on Twitter, but the extensions in Google Wave can be far more sophisticated.

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.

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.

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.

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.