Google Wave - Easy List of Bots and Gadgets

The real power of Google Wave is not in the basic collaboration that it provides, but rather the bots and gadgets that live on the platform.  I don't know why, but I couldn't find a nice, easy list that would enable to to quickly add these to my Waves.  So, I went through all that I could find and listed them here.

Please feel free to add more to the comments and I'll add them to the list.

1. The list of Bots are ones that you have to add to the Wave in order to work.
   
   
2. The list of Gadgets are two forms. Most are ones that have to be installed. They end in manifest.xml. These have to be installed through the down arrow next to the "New Wave" button. The others (gadget URL) can be added using the green puzzle piece that appears in the toolbar when editing a blip.

Gadgets

• Chess Gadget (http://gerculanum.appspot.com/gadgets/com.example.chessgadget.client.ChessGadget.gadget.xml )
• Magnetic Poetry (http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml )
• Bidding Gadget (http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/bidder.xml )
• Rating Gadget (http://pesta.appspot.com/gadgets/ratings/ratings.xml )
• Opensocial Templates (http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/wave.xml )
• Progressy (http://hafstroms.net/wave/progressy/manifest.xml) Adds a progress bar to the wave that can be used to show how far a projekt or checkpoint has to go. Live public wave
• Pick Several (http://www.randomhacks.net/gadgets/pickseveral/manifest.xml) Pick one or more choices from a list (aka approval voting).
• Voicy (http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml) A voice recording/messaging/sharing system. A new way to share greetings, thoughts and brainstormings with real voice communication. Shows tabs, flash integration, identifying the current viewer and customizing the gadget accordingly (between Host and non-host, giving the host more options), Shows retrieving participant information (name) dynamically, shows communication via postMessage to/from external page in iframe, use of set/get state to dynamically update everyone's message list in realtime, shows the use of persistent data through gadget's prefs.
• Mind Map Gadget (http://cactus-wave.appspot.com/mindmap.xml) A Mindmap gadget which allows for collaborative editing of hierarchical data and ideas, including icons, import and export to freemind, voting and drag & drop.
• MyTweet on a Wave (http://haru1ban-wave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/twitter/manifest.xml) A gadget to collaboratively browse twitter streams.
• Wave Dice Gadget (http://wavedicegadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml) Simple dice rolling gadget that supports standard PnP dice types. Full wave support, so other users can see your rolls immediately.
• Nimbb Gadget (http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/installer.xml) Sample gadget to add webcam video recording to any wave.
• tic-tac-toe (gadget URL: http://tic-tac-toe-for-wave.googlecode.com/files/tic-tac-toe.xml) A pencil-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid.
• Google News Gadget (gadget URL: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112392185100245511748/newsgadget.xml ) Search and share google news in real time with your friends. You can search in private mode as well.
• Brainstorming (gadget URL: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml) A simple brainstroming tool to collaborate on an idea tree. Participants can add, edit and move nodes.
• Cards (http://wave-cards.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/manifest.xml) Play card games in Wave. Almost any game is possible!
• Pongy (http://playpongy.appspot.com/manifest.xml) is a real-time 2 player Pong game written to run as a Google wave gadget.
• Piano Gadget (gadget URL: http://wave-instruments.appspot.com/gadget/piano.xml) Piano in your Wave.
• Plus One (gadget URL: http://www.elizabethsgadgets.appspot.com/public/gadget.xml) Add this gadget to a blip to allow viewers to vote "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on it. The gadget keeps track of the number of votes for each.
• Wave Blogadget (gadget URL: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/116844733254275818014/blogadget.xml) Use this configurable gadget to easily embed any wave into any site that supports gadgets.* (i.e. iGoogle, Orkut, Ning, Blogger, or any FriendConnect enabled site). Simpler than using the Embed API, and offers configuration options.
• Canvas (gadget URL: http://ichikawa-public.appspot.com/wave/canvas/canvas.xml) You can draw picture and other people can see it and modify it in real time.
• Coin Toss Gadget (http://cointoss.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cointoss.xml) Use the Coin Toss gadget to decide who buys the next lunch or who should bring donuts to the next meeting. Heads you win, tails you lose. 1. Fill out a title for you "contest" 2. Select who will be "heads" and who will be "tails" 3. Click "Flip Coin" and let the Coin Toss Gadget determine the winner.
• HTML Gadget (gadget URL: http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml) Allows you to add any piece of HTML inside a wave.
• Napkin (gadget URL: http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml) Adds the ability to do quick "back of a napkin" sketches to a wave - collaborative doodling!
• Click Me (gadget URL: 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. 

BOTS

• The Wikify bot (wikifier@appspot.com) adds links to and definitions from Wikipedia to your waves for a given topic. When you add Wikify to a wave, it provides instructions on how to add a link to Wikipedia for a topic, or a definition of that topic.
• The CleanTXT bot (cleantxt@appspot.com) is an automated janitor for a wave, especially helpful on active waves with lots of participants, like public waves. When CleanTXT is participating in a Wave, it automatically deletes empty blips, reduces repetitive blank lines in a blip, automatically corrects common typos (such as a mistyped "teh" for "the"), and inserts missing spaces after commas and semi-colons.
• Polly the Pollster (polly-wave@appspot.com) lets you create multiple choice polls with custom questions and answers
• The TwitUsernames bot (twitusernames@appspot.com) inspects the content of any wave it's participating in, and converts any word that starts with an @ sign to a user link to Twitter.
• The XMPP Lite bot (wave-xmpp@appspot.com) sends you notifications of a wave's changes via XMPP (an instant messenger protocol).
• Madoqua Wave Bot (blog-bot@appspot.com). When added to a wave, this bot provides customizable JavaScript code you can copy and paste into any web page to embed a wave.
• The Emoticony bot (emoticonbot@appspot.com) converts textual smiley faces into smiley face images.
• To embed an image that's already online, add the Inbeddable bot (inbeddable@appspot.com) to your wave, and simply add the URL of the image to it. When you click Done (or press Shift+Enter), Inbeddable will turn the link image into the image itself
• The Easy Public bot makes waves public without public@a.gwave.com's disappearing act. Add it to any wave to give everyone on the Wave server access to your wave. What Easy Public does is add the public@a.gwave.com contact to your wave for you.
• Eliza the Robot Shrink (elizarobot@appspot.com) is a programmed therapist who chats with you in Wave.
• The Swedish Chef bot (borkforceone@appspot.com) inserts "Bork bork bork!" into your waves.
• Flippy (flippy-wave@appspot.com) flips the text of your waves upside down—great for some April Fool's Day fun.
• Grauniady (grauniady@appspot.com) searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.
• Cartoony (cartoonybot@appspot.com, Java source code) - Should replace the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead.
• Yasr (wave-api-dmo@appspot.com, Python source code) - It replaces emoticons in the wave with smiley images.
• Complety (wave-complete@appspot.com, Python source code) - Replaces “???” in a blip with a suggested word.
• Bloggy (blog-wave@appspot.com ) adds wave to blog.
• Stocky (stocky-wave@appspot.com) automatically detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.
• mywaveid (mywaveid@appspot.com ) adds wave id to the wave. not sure what a wave id is.
• Craig's List Search (craigslist-searchy@appspot.com ). Search Craig's list.
• Messy the Wave Robot (messy-robot@appspot.com ) integrates with the Ericsson Labs API "SMS Send & Receive" and makes it possible to have a 2-way communication via SMS in a Wave. After entering a special syntax in a Wave, a participant can trigger an SMS delivery to another user, e.g. to someone not currently online. The user that receives the SMS can reply to it and the reply gets posted to the conversation in the Wave.
• Norton SafeWave (nortonwave@appspot.com) This robot will validate any links typed into a wave conversation. The links are validated against the Norton SafeWeb API (http://safeweb.norton.com). This will keep waves safe from phishing links, malware sites and infected sites.
• Translabot (translabot@appspot.com ) Translation bot.
• Dr. Musical Wave (dr-music@appspot.com) Dr. Music will tell you: 1. What a last.fm user is listening to you (includes you) 2. Music compatibility between people 3. Similar artists to an artist you like All of this with pictures to make it colorful. Once you add Dr. Music he'll tell you how you can get him to do things for you.
• Ego Robot (kimalvetti@appspot.com) A simple, but entertaining robot designed to stroke your ego. It will reply to all your blips with 'praise phrases' like "You're Very Talented".
• Row of Four (rowoffour@appspot.com) Connect Four bot
• Drubot (ethos-drubot@appspot.com) Post Wave to Drupal.
• Notify (wave-email-notifications@appspot.com) Google Wave Email Notifications it's a wave robot that sends an email to the participants of a wave whenever the wave is updated.
• Tagdef (tagdef@appspot.com) 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.
• Tuxaios (tuxaios@appspot.com) is a dice rolling robot for Google Wave written in Python.
• Skimmy (wave-skimmy@appspot.com) change text to emoticon.
• WordPress Bot (wp-bot@appspot.com) add wave to WordPress.
• Starify (starifybot@appspot.com) allows you to star waves and load the list of starred waves later. Visit http://wave.to/robots/starifybot/ for more information.
• Rssybot (rssybot@appspot.com) lets your watch RSS feeds from Google Wave. Just add it to a wave, enter the link to the RSS feed you want to subscribe to and wait for new posts to appear in your inbox as unread blips. For more information, visit: http://www.wave.to/robots/rssybot/
• Treeify (treeify@appspot.com) Multi-wave robots are agents that in some way operate on more than one wave. Treeify is a multi-wave robot which lets you connect waves into tree structures. With it you can build and navigate trees of waves.
• Wave Live Messenger (wavelivemessenger@appspot.com) allows you to log in to your Windows Live Messenger account from within Google Wave and have conversations with your messenger contacts right from within a wave. Even if you leave the wave and start reading a different wave, Wave Live Messenger will keep your conversation up to date so you can return to it at any time and continue chatting. For more details, visit: http://www.wave.to/robots/wavelivemessenger
• Google Calendar Robot (calendar-robot@appspot.com) Robot recognizes date pattern in form YYYY-MM-DD ('.' or '/' can be used for separator also) and updates it to link to add an event to user's Google Calendar.
• Wave Alpha (py-robot@appspot.com) Wolfram-Alpha query.
• Buddy as Service (buddyasaservice@appspot.com) Buddy as a Service is a wave robot, using Yahoo YQL API, Google API and other services to do searches and some other stuff (translations, weather forecast, etc) for you.
• Regexey (regexey@appspot.com) This is a simple find-and-replace robot. After you add it, it will display an introduction message. Then any blip you create should be of the format: seach string replace string text to process It will search for the "search string" in the "text to process" and replace it with the "replace string." Then it will append the results in a reply blip.
• Graphy (graph-wave@appspot.com) extends Google Wave with the ability to collaborate on flow charts and graphs. Graphy searches for a marker (#!dot) at the top of a blip, and when found, adds a gadget to the bottom of the blip which presents an image of the graph. Graph edges are expressed with simple statements like a -> b
• Reddit (wave-reddit@appspot.com) This robot is able to post the top articles from Reddit.com and any sub-reddits. Simply reply to a wave for which it has been invited with the word "reddit" followed by a colon ":" and then the name of the subreddit (or "homepage"). You can specify the number of articles to return by appending an additional colon ":" followed by the number of articles. Examples: reddit:wave, reddit:pics:15, reddit:technology
• Posterous (posterous@appspot.com) Post wave to Posterous.
• Blogbot (blogbot-wave@appspot.com) Organizes related waves (blog posts, FAQ, etc) in a central Table of Contents wave.
• Magic 8 Ball (magic-8ball@appspot.com) Sees and Knows All. Just add this Robot to your wave and ask the magic 8-ball any question and receive your answer.
• Piratify Robot (piratify@appspot.com) Turns whatever you type into "Pirate Speak" .. Arrrr.
• Google Wave Drupal Integration (drupalembedbot@appspot.com) A Drupal module and corresponding robot that enabled the embedding of Google Waves embedding, robot.
• BotURL (boturl@appspot.com) Replaces FULL URLs with hyperlinks whose title are the domain names. Replaces TinyURLs/ bit.ly URLs with original URL domain names and links them to the original URLs.
• Censorship Robot (censorshiprobot@appspot.com) Google wave robot, that filters specific words from dictionary and then replaces with random chars. The dictionary can be updated from any blip with two commands: censor:someword - add someword to dictionary uncensor:someword - remove someword from dictionary
• Converts-y (convertsy@appspot.com) Convert units from one type to another. 1.23km (?miles) -> 1.23km (0.76 miles).
• Embeddy (embeddy@appspot.com) Embeds Wave into Web.
• Embedded Search Results (wave-sandbox@appspot.com) This simple robot allows you to quickly and easily perform a search and have the results embedded in your Wave. Currently supports Google & Flickr Searches. Support for more search providers will be coming soon. For full information visit http://wave-sandbox.appspot.com.
• Anti-swear Bot (invectivedeleted@appspot.com) A simple bot in Python that stops people being rude on a wave it is added to. Note: The rude words have been blocked out in the screenshot to avoid offending anyone.
• Complety (wave-complete@appspot.com) Uses the Google Search API to replace "???" in a blip (after it's submitted) with a suggested word. 

personalized-google

personalized-google
Originally uploaded by danielcraig

Is this new, or I'm I just getting it late. This just showed up on my Google results today. It allows me to raise the rank of sites and even delete them (from what I get back)

La rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Google Maps

La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain

Google Street View on La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain. I have fond memories of my time in Spain a little over 10 years ago. Of course, things change. I hardly recognize most of these places now.

This post, however, is not just a nostalgic look into my past. I want to focus attention on the use of Street View for virtual touring. You now have the ability, not only to look at a picture, but rather to get the overall lay of the land before visiting a place. If you take a look at my link, you're able to see business names and other landmarks. Heck, you could plan a sightseeing trip and where to go for lunch along the way with this tool.

This tool situates users in the context more so than anything else we have available to us. You can see the style of clothes people wear (not faces in the EU), cars they are driving, and, of course, the architecture. You can visit famous places when discussing issues in history or current events, or you can visit the places less traveled to better understand how common people live or particularly sub-groups live (i.e., Harlem, Beverly Hills, or rural areas).

I haven't seen anything published on how people are using this, but I expect that you will in the near future.

Google Sites

The buzz has been pretty big about Google Sites, so I had to check it out. It's amazing that Google has lasted this long without having a wiki. I always considered Google Docs to be similar to wikis, yet with limited editors.

So, I went there. I wasn't sure what Google Apps was. I vaguely remember hearing about this service in the past, but being very uninterested in it. It is an enterprise system that requires you to belong to an organization that participates in this or that you have a domain that can be associated with this. I actually started to set this up on my domain, but it seems that I have to change my DNS settings, which I really didn't want to do.

Then I realized that Indiana University was probably set up to do this, so I used my IU email to setup an account. Then I saw that 73 others were signed up along with their email accounts (thanks Google, but please don't post those). There was no other way to contact them. I would have assumed that a page like that would have links to their spaces.

So, then I finally set up a "site" (wiki). The templates are terrible, but you can do a significant amount of editing of the template (no CSS access :( The interface design is pretty good. The editing options are much better than Wikispaces (sorry guys, I still love you) or any other wiki that I've used. This is a multi-billion dollar corporation going after a traditionally touchy-feely market and they are going to kill (in the future).

Why do I say "in the future"? Because there is a major flaw in Sites right now. Only folks in my network can edit. In a world where things are becoming more and more open, why would Google (GOOGLE!) play with walled gardens? It just blows me away. Everyone can see the site (Here is mine -- Seoul Daddy), but the most open option that I can choose is "everyone at Indiana University" for the editors setting.

That being said, this might be a welcomed addition to K-12 teachers who are required more and more to have these walled gardens. This makes it really, really easy to do.

Dan

Prometeus - The Media Revolution

YouTube - Prometeus - The Media Revolution

These are fun videos. It's like mini-science fiction documentaries. This is just for fun, but I think that you'll like it.

This is another video that predicts global domination for Google, through the purchase of all competitors. Like I said before, these are fun, but hardly believable....though, who knows?



Dan

Google Maps

I know that this will just end badly, but I think that I love Google. They just keep on coming out with new, cool, tools all the time.

I've loved Google Maps (http://maps.google.com), but their newest feature just thrills me to no end.

You will now notice a new tab in Google Maps called "My Maps". This lets you annotate, save, and publish your own personal maps. Don't think that this is just a way to look at places, it is most definately a communication tool as well. These annotations can tell a story with text and images.

It was so cool I had to map out a few places around my campus. Check it out.

http://tinyurl.com/26gf2b

Lastly, this tool is incredibly easy to use. There's not that much functionality yet, which is good because there's not too much getting in the way of you using it. I predict that this will become one of my favorite tools to use both personally and professionally.

Dan

http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

Everyone is commenting on this in the listservs and I assume that it's being blogged about quite a bit too. Time to unleash it on you all :)

This is an interesting project that uses Google Earth (which is a program you have to download to your computer) to map out the literary routes for a number of novels. I'm assuming that you will see many more in the next few years.

Go to the site for information, resources, including the .kmz files for use with Google Earth.


Also check out Google Certified Teacher program (http://www.google.com/educators/gtc.html). Looks interesting for those of you a little more ambitous on the technology end.

Google Librarian Center

Some really good printable posters from Google on how to better use the search engine to find what you want to find.