After all the cussing and pleading, I finally got a Google wave invite just 2 days back. Even though I had gone through all those sexy video tutorials explaining what Google Wave is, I couldn’t figure out what I am supposed to do next. In case, you are in a similar situation check out the cool list of Google wave gadgets and tools I managed to collect over the last 2 days.
Before that, do not expect something mind-blowing when playing with Google Wave. There are still hell lot of things which aren’t perfect and by default Google hasn’t come out with that many gadgets as such. Most of these are built by hobby developers who must have been trying out the Wave APIs and some of them are really useless!
Suggested Read:
- Ultimate List of Google Wave Bots
- 10 More Google Wave Gadgets to Play With
- How to Install a Google Wave Gadget Extension?
Ultimate List of Google Wave Gadgets and Tools
1. Twitter
This ought to be featured out here and of-course on top. Just add tweety-wave@appspot.com to your contact list and follow the instructions you get inside the wavelet. It uses Twitter’s oAuth mechanism to log you in. The wave with the Tweety is updated in a real time.
2. Wikify for Wikipedia
Wikify gives you a full definition of any topic you want from within a Wave. All you need to do is to add Wikify mail address to your Wave contact list: wikifier@appspot.com
and each time you need to know the definition of a topic or a term, use the Wikify command to get the info from Wikipedia
3. TwilioBot
TwilioBot (twiliobot@appspot.com) automatically transforms the phone numbers in the wave into click-to-call links. If user clicks a link, a call is placed to his cell phone or landline and to the phone number in the link and the two are connected. The phone call can be transcribed and automatically inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio of the conversation.
4. Map Gadget
Lets users edit a map together, adding markers and polys with titles and descriptions. Users can also search for addresses and businesses and add those.
5. Bit.ly-bot
Add bitly-bot@appspot.com to your contact list and then add this user whenever you want to shorten URLs inside Waves. It will do that automatically. You can also use the same Wave just to shorten the URL whenever needed.
6. iWave
Allows you to create a profile on Wave by using Facebook connect. To use iWave, open a new Wave, click on the green button, and add this widget URL: http://gadget.wave.to/iWave/iWave.xml
7. Grauniady
Grauniady is a Guardian Google Wave Prototype Robot and I really like this experimental gadget. Add grauniady@appspot.com to your contact list and input the phrase you want to search on The Guardian. This robot is a great example how mainstream media could use Google Wave.
8. Eliza
Remember Eliza, the auto-chat bot? She makes her way into Google wave as well. Add elizarobot@appspot.com to your contact list and talk to her if you are feeling alone in your Google Wave client.
9. Starify
Starify allows you to bookmark Waves. Add Starify’s email address to your contact list: starifybot@appspot.com and then you are able to keep track of all your starred waves. Add Starify user to any wave you want to bookmark, then type the following commands:
1. /star’ Star a wave
2. /list’ See all your starred waves
3. /delete’ Remove starred waves
10. Nokar
Nokar is pretty similar to Starify and works on the same command concept. It allows you to do all sort of things such as: Convert your text to pirate-speak, show recent tweets by user, and more. Add lab2market@appspot.com to your contact list.
11. Bloggy
Bloggy publishes the content of waves to a blog site. Add blog-wave@appspot.com to your contact list and test it out yourself.
12. Stocky
Stocky (stocky-wave@appspot.com) automatically detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.
13. Emoticony
Emoticony is a must have for all MSN fans. It’s a robot that converts text representations of emoticons to actual images once the Wave is submitted. The robot sits on this email address: emoticonbot@appspot.com and can be used in every conversation.
14. Cartoony
Cartoony replaces the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead. Add cartoonybot@appspot.com to your contact list and then to all waves to see it in action
15. Amazon
Add this email address to your contact list: amazon-withwaves-com@appspot.com, then follow the commands instruction to use the amazon bot.
16. Calcbot
Calcbot helps you with simple math calculations during your conversation. Add this bot to your user list: calcbot@appspot.com and follow the simple command to start.
17. Flippy
Not sure why you want to do this, in case you get bored inside a conversation, you can flip your text with Flippy - flippy-wave@appspot.com
18. Lasty
As the name suggest it’s a bot related to last.fm and music. Add Lasty (last-robot@appspot.com) if you want to tell people what you listened to recently on Last.fm during a conversation. After adding Lasty-bot to your contact list, type ‘YourLastFMUser-is-listening‘ inside a Wave and Lasty will tell what song are you listening.
19. Complety
Completey (wave-complete@appspot.com) replaces “???” in a blip with a suggested word.
20. Short Emoticon Service (SES)
Similar to Emoticony but the other user gets notified along with a sound. Pretty simple and effective. Let the other users know how you feeling currently.
21. Row of Four
Add rowoffour@appspot.com to your contact list and play against a robot, with the goal to get four cells in a row of your color before the robot does.
22. All for Good
All for Good is a Google Wave extension that helps you find and share ways to do good in real time. It helps you take up volunteer opportunities, thus play a role in improving our communities and country. Here is the installer XML
23. Tagdef
This wave looks for #hashtags in your wave/blips, and uses the API at http://tagdef.com to look up definitions for these tags. It then adds a reply to the wave with the definitions. Add tagdef@appspot.com to your contact list and follow the instructions.
Let me know which Google wave robot / Gadget/ tool you liked the most? Is there any new gadget released and not present here? Do let me know.
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
I am yet to get an invite… Wonder if they have any preferences or biases for giving invites
How’s your experience with Wave?
do you want an invite? i have 12 left.. let me know your email and i will send one over to you..
I am VERY INTERESTED in an invite…
juke_box_hero982 [at] yahoo [dot] com
invite sent
Any invites left?
send a reply to pjorgenson71577[at]yahoo[dot]com where I will supply with email I use regularly and don’t just leave out for the world to see in replies such as this one.
Have been trying to track an invite for about a month now and just stumbled on this site and found your post.
Many thanks in advance!
can send me a invite too? daveteu@gmail.com
sent!
Any invites left? thanks pegges at boulder.net
Thanks,
p
Hi,
Please send me Google wave invitation, if you still have any left.
yogeshdpatel[at]gmail[dot]com
Hey got anymore invites? jfotos@gmx.com if you do. Thanks!
Please send me Google wave invitation, if you still have any left.
chincopanda[at]gmail[dot]com.
Thanks in advance,
Chinco
If you have any invites left i would greatly appreciate one. jeffreymcguill@gmail.com Thanks again.
Wow looks like you’ve been busy these past 2 days but I’m glad because I just got my invite today and now I know what’s available. Thanks for the great list.
Where did you get the invites from? I m yet to get my invite. Im very eager to try out my hands on it.
It seems that bloggy and twetty are down or still don’t work! Any hint?
Yes, Tweety seems to be down currently, not sure about Bloggy. There is an alternative for Tweety I guess, will check and update
I am still finding hard to get an invite for Google Wave.
Meanwhile, you did a very detailed post here. I am very much interested in testing Wave without it.
Good list.
I’m actually not yet on Wave, but would love to be invited to the party if you’d like a new friend. Sorry in advance for my shameless spam in requesting an invite. This looks like an absolutely wonderful new way to communicate with others!
Anyone who has a spare invite….please invite me..
abhisfortitude (at) gmail (dot) com
Hey there,
Just invited you. Should be soon!
Thanks a ton friend. I got the invitation. I feel so happy and excited to be a part of google wave team!!
could you send an invite to mistymaluATgmailDOTcom?
chk this http://techpp.com/2009/11/18/techpp-google-wave-invites-giveaway/
@author: Handy list. BTW in place of Lasty try a new release – Dr. Music (dr-music@appspot.com). This one also has a feature to tell you about music compatibilty, common artists (with pics) alongside current track (with pics again).
Hey raju
Is there a plugin for this REPLY thingi in ur blog??
coz i dont get this in my blog.
i really liked this reply thing
I love it… thank you for all you work! Eliza is not a smart bot, but I like her. blogger didn’t work, twitter worked but the interface was ascii and sort of mucked up. the guardian one didn’t work…. but this may just be me.
This is INCREDIBLE… this makes it a lot more interesting thinking about what we can do… it’s limitless.
Wonderful Collection! really was helpful
this is a much need find… kudos to you bro!!!
Amazon, MP3 and eBay bots and gadgets here http://withwaves.com
More bots and gadgets are on its way…
Hi – nice collection!
You might also find our ClackPoint wave gadget interesting – adding it to a wave allows the waves participants to hold an audio-conference within the wave, calling in either through their browser or by phone. Wed welcome any feedback!
The gadget can be installed from http://files.clackpoint.com/plugins/wave.xml
More info at http://clackpoint.com/gadgets/wave/
Thanks,
Richard Mortier
mort+techpp@vipadia.com
Cofounder, Vipadia Limited
http://gameartsguild.com/seth/rpgdice.xml
This is the best RPG dice Gadget we came up with after not being happy with the other wave dice. Notice that you can “scroll” through the older die rolls with the Wave history. This tool recognizes 3 operators: + (addition), – (subtraction) and d (die roll). You can leave out the number of dice when rolling one die (d10 = 1d10 (9)) and you can leave out the type of dice when rolling d6 (5d = 5d6 (16))
FAQ GADGET
Hi there,
just was playing with some gadgets and thought i could write one by my self. Now I made a FAQ Gadget where you can put Question and Answers, delete them, set up that only you can manage the FAQ Gadget and users have the possibility to vote if the answer helped them or not
The direct wave installer is here: https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B-KE8la6aT.12
if it shouldnt work, you can use this xml:
http://www.webler.at/gadget/faq.xml
can i have a google wave invitation please….
ma e-mail address : fzcool123@gmail.com
thnx a lot
Would love to be invited too! wallie@wolke7.net
Thanks for this list.
#20 is missing the link or contact to that gadget
I’ll google this, but, if you have quick example on how to install that xml gadget then it’ll make things easier for others.
can please someone tell me where to find Rosy the translator for google wave??
aunt-rosie@appspot.com
heya evry1..!
i have added twitter gadget..bt cant access it..
can anyone plz help me..!?!
I added the tweety gadget to my Wave account, and to be honest I don’t really see the point in it! Am I missing something? Assumably you could set up a similar account yourself and add users to that to enable multiple users to tweet to the same account, or set up a twitter account so that people can view your wave conversations – but this can also easily be done using any of the many Twitter apps already out there such as Seesmic.
@dan,
as I have mentioned at the start of the article, most of these apps are in beta and are nothing more than experiments to explore the possibilities of Wave. Google has yet again thrown open its product to be taken forward by developers for FREE.
Interesting list… being a starter with waves, I found it very useful. Thanks a ton!
Even I have discovered this plugin, a collaborative mind map:
http://cactus-wave.appspot.com/net.brucecooper.mindmapgadget.MindMapGadget/net.brucecooper.mindmapgadget.client.MindMapGadget.gadget.xml
Also I made my own robot a week ago, if someone want to try it, is a rock paper scissors lizard spock game. You can add the robot with this address: tooboor@appspot.com
You may want to check out a wave gadget that allows wave participants to talk to each other.
Manifest for the gadget is located at:
http://picowave.mailvision.com:5080/weblynx/manifest.xml
You can also add the gadget by URL (without installing it as extension). To do this use the following URL:
http://picowave.mailvision.com/picowave.html
Anyone figure out how to embed Google Latitude in a wave?
Thanks! Great compile!
Regards,
Mike Walker
Thanks so much for your list, having just started “waving” your post was really helpful for gadgets! Appreciated.
You can take a look at the new “Nimbb Gadget” just released. It allows to quickly record a video using a webcam and share it with all participants in the wave. Great to share thoughts easily.
Gadget URL: http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/Nimbb.xml
Installer URL: http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/installer.xml
More information: http://nimbb.com/Tools/GoogleWave/
If anyone has an extra invite I would appreciate it. I got one but I don’t have anyone to WAVE with. My friends are all still waiting. Just one would be great so I can test it out.
Vidimo Se!
ZaviMe@gmail.com
with your invite you should have received extra invite to pass out to your friends. make sure you are not missing that wave!