Google wave
Posted: October 7th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: agile, application, code, experience, singularity, strategy | Tags: google wave | No Comments »After playing around with Google wave, I found myself asking what next. Below are just a few extensions/gadgets you may want to expore.
Robots
(To use robots, add them as a contact, then add the robot-contact to a wave)
Chatbots
- Eliza - ogenex@appspot.com - An implementation of the Eliza chatbot borrowed from the NLTK.
- Elize - elizarobot@appspot.com - Is one of the first robots that was created by non Googler and is very useful if you are feeling alone in your Google Wave client.
- Rude chatbot - notatory@appspot.com - An obnoxious chatbot borrowed from the Natural Language Processing Toolkit.
- TooAngel Wave - In Progress - tooangel-wave@appspot.com - A self learning robot, that will respond to a reply in a more humanoid way
Conversion
- BotURL - boturl@appspot.com - A URL Linker that replaces full URLs with hyperlinks.
- Calcbot - calcbot@appspot.com - This bot will do in place calculations for simple mathematical expressions and allow you to use user defined variables.
- Cartoony - cartoonybot@appspot.com - Replaces the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead. Colors the balloons based on username.
- Dice Bot - dice-bot@appspot.com - Dice-rolling bot. Dice Bot will replace XdY (X is the number of dice; Y is the number of sides) with the results of those rolls.
- Flippy - flippy-wave@appspot.com - Turns text upside-down.
- Fnordlinky - fnordlinks@appspot.com - Replaces “PMID <number>” with article information from PubMed.
- Hearty Emobot - hearty-emobot@appspot.com - Replaces ASCII art with wingding characters.
- i-cron - i-cron@appspot.com - Evaluates Python expressions. Looks at blips in event, searches for CALC() macros and executes Python code using exec().
- Insulty - megabytemb123@appspot.com - Information Needed
- IPA Bot - ipa-bot@appspot.com - Changes normal letters into special characters used for phonetics.
- Piratify - piratify@appspot.com - Turns whatever you type into “Pirate Speak” .. Arrrr.
- Plotzie - plotzie@appspot.com - Plots sparklines from your data.
- Shortee - Wish - Change “c u l8r” to “see you later” etc.
- Swedish Chef - borkforceone@appspot.com - Changes english into Swedish-Chef Speak. Bork! Bork!
- Syntaxy - kasyntaxy@appspot.com - Syntaxy does blip-by-blip syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including Python, Java, C, C++, html, css and javascript.
- Watexy - watexy@appspot.com - Use LaTeX mathematical language in your Waves!
- Wikify - wikifier@appspot.com - Replaces specific marked up text with a link to Wikipedia or a description relevant to the marked text.
Games
- Hangman - wavehangman@appspot.com - Play Hangman.
- Roshambo - roshambowave@appspot.com - Play Roshambo (Rock / Paper / Scissors).
- Speedy - Wish - Track the words per minute of all participants, competitive typing!
Groups
- Groupy - groupy-robot@appspot.com - Robot to manage groups.
- Groupy - groupy-the-bot@appspot.com - Robot to manage groups.
Integration
- drop.io - mikeswaverobot@appspot.com - Creates a drop and puts the info into the wave whenever the robot is added as a participant.
- OpenAustrailia - In Progress - A robot to allow interaction with the OpenAustralia web site.
- PlonieBot - In Progress - ploniebot@appspot.com - Brings wave document editing capabilities to the Plone CMS
- Poppy - In Progress - poppywave@appspot.com - Helps bridge Google Wave conversations to email users outside the Wave.
- Rssybot - rssybot@appspot.com - Turn google wave into an RSS reader!
- Starify - starifybot@appspot.com - Lets you star waves, in sort of bookmarking style.
- Tweety the Twitbot - tweety-wave@appspot.com - You can access your Twitter account.
- Twiliobot - twiliobot@appspot.com - Transforms phone numbers into click-to-call links. If user clicks a link, a call is placed to his phone and to the number in the link. The call can be transcribed and inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio.
- Wave-Email - In Progress - wave-email@appspot.com - Provide an extension to Google Wave which will allow the integration of both sending and receiving emails.
- Wave Live Messenger - wavelivemessenger@appspot.com - Allows you to chat to your windows live messenger contacts from inside a wave.
Language
- PhilBot - Wish - A suggested solution to the problem of waves with languages you can’t read.
- Rosy Etta - rosy@wavesandbox.com - Translator (40 Languages).
Polling
- Polly the Pollster - polly-wave@appspot.com - Poll Bot.
Search / Aggregation
- Dr Maps - dr-maps@appspot.com - Updates a wave by inserting a map associated to an address.
- Dr Weather - shiny-sky@appspot.com - Gives the weather for a City
- Embedded Search Results - wave-sandbox@appspot.com - Web and Image searches inline.
- FML Blipper - fmlblipper@appspot.com - displays random FML story from www.fmylife.com
- Grauniady - grauniady@appspot.com - Searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.
- Stocky - stocky-wave@appspot.com - Detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.
- Wavethingy - wavethingy@appspot.com - Searches Amazon for DVDs and books, and gives the author a cut of any purchases made off the links.
- Yelpy - yelpful@appspot.com - Searches Yelp with a user defined location and category.
Utilities
- AmazonBot - amazon-withwaves-com@appspot.com - Enables social product research and shopping on Amazon.com. Wave participants can share products & reviews with contacts in real-time thanks to automatic queries by the AmazonBot against conversation keywords. The AmazonBot gadget can detect products and return inline product links or a custom full product browser.
- Bloggy - blog-wave@appspot.com - Information Needed
- Bit.ly Bot - bitly-bot@appspot.com - Shortens the url using bitly.
- Botty - Wish - Will automatically add a set of useful bots to a wave according to a collection of bots (so they don’t have to individually be added when you use them all the time.
- CountColon - countcolon@appspot.com - Adds text statistics to your blips (words, lines, etc.)
- Companion Sphere - companionsphere@appspot.com - Collection of geek utils, first working verb is “lookup” for wikipedia/wiktionary one-line descriptions.
- Databot - Wish - Will start as soon as the GData interface is published.
- Emoticony - emoticonbot@appspot.com - Replaces text representations of emoticons with the relevant image.
- JBREAKOUT BOT ADDED - jbreakout@appspot.com - Debug utility that reports event triggers.
- Maison - maison@appspot.com - Makes blips public at http://maison.appspot.com.
- Multi - multi-wave@appspot.com - A quote collector. Reply a blip you want to quote with ‘quote this’ and randomly display a quote with ‘quote <wave@account.com>’. The bot is still being under development but you can try playing with it.
- Natural Language Processing - knowledge-books@appspot.com - Adds blips with NLP analysis.
- Nokar - lab2market@appspot.com - Has many features such as translations, image insertion, insert last tweets etc.
- Posterous-robot - posterous-robot@appspot.com - A robot for posterous.com user to post blog in Google Wave. Here is how to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous.
- Publisher - wave-publisher@appspot.com - Information Needed
- Skimmy - wave-skimmy@appspot.com - Converts text emoticons, from : ) to img. Has a bookmarklet which creates a popup menu to insert emoticons for which the code is unknown.
- Smiley - smiley-bot@appspot.com - Changes the smiley symbols to smiley images.
- Smiley - In Progress - smiley-robot@appspot.com - Changes the smiley symbols to smiley images.
- Style Chart Robot - stylechart@appspot.com - Inserts a chart into a wave.
Wave Management
- Bouncy - bouncy-wave@appspot.com - Allows you to remove robots from a wave. Doesn’t seem to work on real people though, and laughs if you try to ask it to kick itself out. To get it to kick a bot out, type “bounce:name@domain.com”
- Linear - Wish - Enforce all replies to be to the main wave. If a user replies to a reply, remove it and place it as a reply to the main wavelet.
- Read Onlie - readonliebot@appspot.com - Records the original wave content. Whenever it’s edited, the content is replaced with the original. Simple as that.
- Seekdroid - seekdroid@appspot.com - You can list Robots, add them and find them out, easy to use. In continuous development. Website with all the information seekdroid.appspot.com.
- Sweepy - sweepy-wave@appspot.com - Remove empty, whitespace-only blips.
- Taggy - taggy-wave@appspot.com - Recognize #hashtags and add them as tags to the wave.
- Tocgen - tocgen@appspot.com - Table of Contents auto-generated and updated based on the h1,h2,h3,h4 in a wave.
- Twitusernames - twitusernames@appspot.com - Replaces all Twitter @username with links to the Twitter accounts.
Gadgets
(To use gadgets, once editing a blip, just click on the green puzzle piece, and enter the url into the bottom text box)
Utilities
- Ajax Animator Gadget - In Progress - http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/manifest.xml - A fully integrated multi-user web based vector graphic animation authoring environment.
- AmazonBot Gadgett - http://amazon-withwaves-com.appspot.com/gadgets/AmazonProductList.xml - The AmazonBot gadget can detect products and return inline product links or a custom full product browser.
- Bidder - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/bidder.xml - Simple Auction.
- Checky - http://wave-gadgets.appspot.com/checky.xml - Basecamp-like checklists with drag-and-drop.
- Click me - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/hellowave.xml - Shows a button with a counter. Each time the button gets clicked, the counter is incremented by one. Shows off how the state interaction works.
- HTML- http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml - Embed any HTML into a wave.
- <iframe> - http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml - Embed any web page (as <iframe>) into a wave.
- iWave - http://gadget.wave.to/iWave/iWave.xml - Allows you to create a profile on wave to make wave just a little more personal. Uses facebook connect to retrieve your details if you sign in.
- Licensing - In Progress - http://wave-license.appspot.com/license_gadget.xml - Creative Commons RDF Embedding - Planning Stage.
- Maps - http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101415471413908368316/mappy.xml -Embed Google Map.
- Napkin - http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml - Example of Flash/Flex Wave Gadget, similar to Whiteboard gadget above - source on Google Code.
- QuakeBot - In Progress - Server information on the Quake 3 protocol.
- Raffly - http://raffly.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sandbox/raffly-xml1/raffly.xml - Insert this gadget to select a random participant from your wave to be the winner. The winner of what? Well that’s up to you
- Ratings - http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/gadgets/ratings/ratings.xml - Lets participants rate and review a topic (movie, restaurant, etc) in a wave and shows a tally of the result.
- Slashdot Gadget - http://www.m1cr0sux0r.com/slashdot.xml - Loads latest Headlines from Slashdot.
- Troco - An experimental peer-to-peer currency - http://troco.ourproject.org/gadget/org.ourproject.troco.client.TrocoWaveGadget.gadget.xml - Aims to provide a decentralized complementary community currency system, that is, a peer-to-peer currency system. Also you can see it as an IOU or promissory note based system. More info click here.
- Vector Editor - http://jsvectoreditor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wave/vectoreditor.xml - A cross platform collaborative real time vector graphics editor.
- Whiteboard gadget - http://vps.michaelrose.id.au/canvas.xml - Draw on a virtual whiteboard.
- Who is Coming? - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/areyouin/gadget.xml -Show a list of all people that have said whether they will come or not.
Games
- Backgammon - Wish - Remove all of one’s own checkers from the board before one’s opponent can do the same. [Wikipedia]
- Battleship - Wish - Displays different board based on user.
- Boxes - In Progress - Connect lines to make boxes and win.
- Cards - http://wave-cards.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cards.xml - Play card games.
- Chess - http://gerculanum.appspot.com/gadgets/com.example.chessgadget.client.ChessGadget.gadget.xml - Play chess.
- Connect 4/Four-in-a-row - In Progress - sdunster@wavesandbox.com - http://www.sdunster.com/wave/four.xml - 2 users + observers, turn locking, just waiting to write win-detection code.
- Floodit - http://gadget.wave.to/floodit/game.xml - 2 player race to fill a board with colors.
- Magnetic Poetry - http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107558585548952247431/fridge-11.xml - Re-arrange random words to form poetry.
- Match them colors! - In Progress - Match 3 / gem matching game.
- Othello - Wish - Play Reversi.
- Sudoku - http://blah.appspot.com/wave/sudoku/sudoku.xml - Play Sudoku.
- The Button - http://hyperthese.net/wave-gadgets/the-button.xml - A useless (I mean USELESS) game.