We’ve received some great ideas for robots & gadgets in our first round of Google Wave invite giveaway. We’ve received a new batch of invites and have decided to make it easier to receive a invite. Interested? Simply follow both of these steps:
Follow @withwaves on Twitter and comment on this post with a link to your Twitter account.
Tweet the following:
RT and follow @withwaves for a chance for a #waveinvite http://withwaves.com
We will randomly pick users and Direct Message them requesting an email address for an invite. The contest will run until all current invites are sent!
Introducing the WithWaves eBayBot – a Google Wave robot and gadget – which enable social product research, auctions and shopping on ebay.com. Wave participants can share auctions & information with contacts in real-time thanks to automatic queries by the ebayBot against conversation keywords. The eBayBot gadget can detect products and return inline auction and product links or a custom full auction browser. Continued »
The Google Wave AmazonBot just received a tiny update adding support for querying a single Amazon.com department e.g Electronics or Software. Anyone who has spent any time shopping for items on Amazon can agree there is too much good stuff. We realized that as convenient as it is to carry a conversation on Google Wave with the AmazonBot running in the background, the results may be too scattered. A simple query for ‘iPhone’ may return results from Amazon Books, Electronics, or Wireless. Now you can trigger a query for results from a single department both inside of a conversation or from the gadget itself. Continued »
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