WithWaves - Google Wave Development » wave http://withwaves.com Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:36:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Round 2: Get a Google Wave Invitehttp://withwaves.com/get-google-wave-invite/ http://withwaves.com/get-google-wave-invite/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:24 +0000 Raul Raja http://withwaves.com/?p=235 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:

  1. Follow @withwaves on Twitter and comment on this post with a link to your Twitter account.
  2. 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!

]]> http://withwaves.com/get-google-wave-invite/feed/ 47 The eBayBot = Google Wave + eBay Auctionshttp://withwaves.com/ebay/ http://withwaves.com/ebay/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:15:28 +0000 Raul Raja http://withwaves.com/?p=126

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.

Install the ebayBot robot & gadget

Installing both the eBayBot robot & gadget is a one-step process. Simply add a new Wave participant and enter the following contact:

ebay-withwaves-com@appspot.com

Once added as a conversation participant, the eBayBot robot will listen for identifiable product names and insert an eBay auction browser or product links.

How-to search eBay

To initiate a specific auction query, simply type the following at any time into your Wave conversation:

ebay: keywords

ebayBot will reply and insert a auction browsing gadget which will be shared amongst all conversation members.

Install eBayBot Gadget only

In order to install the eBayBot Gadget (sans robot and auto links for auctions), create a new message and select the Insert Gadget feature. Enter the following URL for “Enter the URL for a gadget you want to add” in the “Add by XML” field:

http://gadgets.withwaves.com/ebay

The gadget is also available as an extension installer so people can use it in other Waves. We encourage you to offer this option to audiences that may benefit from eBay auction searches. Simply add this extension installer into Waves where there may be an audience interested in searching eBay for great deals.

http://gadgets.withwaves.com/installer/ebay/manifest.xml

Each participant will then be able to add the eBay gadget to any other waves of their own using a handy shortcut next to the Insert Gadget feature.

]]> http://withwaves.com/ebay/feed/ 12 Department search filtering for AmazonBothttp://withwaves.com/department-search-filtering-for-amazonbot/ http://withwaves.com/department-search-filtering-for-amazonbot/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:39:03 +0000 Raul Raja http://withwaves.com/?p=88

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.

With AmazonBot added to your Wave, the following will run a standard query on Amazon.com:

amazon: keywords

To narrow search results down, use the following:

amazon-[department]: keywords

Replace [department] with any one of the following:

  • Apparel
  • Baby
  • Beauty
  • Books
  • Classical
  • DigitalMusic
  • DVD
  • Electronics
  • ForeignBooks
  • GourmetFood
  • HealthPersonalCare
  • HomeGarden
  • Jewelry
  • Kitchen
  • Magazines
  • Merchants
  • Miscellaneous
  • Music
  • MusicalInstruments
  • MusicTracks
  • OfficeProducts
  • OutdoorLiving
  • PCHardware
  • Photo
  • Restaurants
  • Software
  • SoftwareVideoGames
  • SportingGoods
  • Tools
  • Toys
  • VHS
  • Video
  • VideoGames
  • Wireless
  • WirelessAccessories
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Does the idea of Google Wave still baffle you? Check out this short animated video explaining the basics of Wave. Nobody likes the email monster.

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