Google allows some settings and give us the ability to actually have control of the conversation the way we feel comfortable with, here are some tools that will enrich your conversations and will give your Wave a little boost. (warning though, some of the tools are useless as hell)
1. Twitter
There are two ways to use Twitter through Wave:
A) First, add tweety's email to your contact list tweety-wave@appspot.com. Follow the instructions you get inside the Wave, which is basically to log in to your Twitter account, then you'll be able to use Twitter from within Wave.
B) Open a New Wave, click on this button to add a gadget via URL - add this specific URL: http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml, and start following your tweetstream.
2. TinyURL - Bit.ly-bot
OK, this one is pretty sweet - Add this email address to your Wave contact list: bitly-bot@appspot.com, 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.
3. Wikipedia-Wikify
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:
And that is by far the geekiest way to find information through Wikipedia!
4. Starify - Star a Wave
Starify allows you to bookmark Waves, simple as that. 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 a any wave you want to bookmark, then type the following commands:
- /star' Star a wave
- /list' See all your starred waves
- /delete' Remove starred waves
5. Nokar
Same as Starify & Wikfy, Nokar 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. I actually like the command that helps you search pictures from Flickr. This is the Nokar email address in Wave:lab2market@appspot.com.
6. iWave
Allows you to create a profile on Wave by using Facebook connect, overall it is a nice tool if you need to introduce yourself to others in a Wave. 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. 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.
8. Amazon
In case you want to shop with your friends, you have two ways to do it - through Amazon-bot address, or through an XML link that you can add as a new gadget inside each conversation.
To use a the Amazon-bot user - add this email address to your contact list: amazon-withwaves-com@appspot.com, then follow the commands instruction. It might be easier though to just simple link to the gadget with this URL:http://gadgets.withwaves.com/installer/amazon/manifest.xml - same results.
9. Calcbot
This robot will fill in simple math calculations during your conversation (again, with a certain command) Add this bot to your user list: calcbot@appspot.com and follow the simple command to start.
10. Flippy
Just in case you get bored inside a conversation, you can flip your text with Flippy -flippy-wave@appspot.com - or you can go to this site, and flip it without the extra user.
11. Lasty
And finally 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.
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