Try the preview of Waveable on your site!
Jun 28th
Just before Google IO we replaced one of the comment sections on our site with Waveable and it proved to be a big hit! Waveable allowed us to place a quick loading Wave onto our site and have anyone on the internet reply. It’s a great way to add a comments feed to any of your pages without needing to setup any complex systems or infrastructure. Today we are opening up the preview version of Waveable, so you can use it on your site! It’s easy to setup and you will be given a snippet of html to place on your site. If you’re a web developer why not give it a try. You can find out all the details about Waveable and full instructions on the Waveable page.
Try Google Wave on your Android with our preview of Wave-up
May 13th
We are delighted to announce our preview version of Wave-up! Wave-up allows you to receive notifications about followed Waves on your Android device then view and reply to the Wave right from your mobile browser. If you want to try the preview of Wave-up on your Android right now! You can watch our short video on how to get started or you can follow the steps below…
To register and download the app for the first time you need to do the following(You only need to do this once!):
- Sign into your Wave account, create a new Wave, press the add user button, type ‘wave-up@appspot.com’ and add the contact to your conversation
- Press register
- Enter your e-mail address
- You will now receive an e-mail with your username and pin along with instructions to download the mobile application.
- Download and install the mobile application.
- Press preferences
- Enter the wave address and pin provided in the e-mail
Once you have Wave-up installed and registered to your account it’s simple to subscribe to waves. Just do the following:
- Sign into your Wave account and add wave-up@appspot.com to a Wave
- Press subscribe
- You will only receive new updates about a Wave after you have visited it.
For more details on this preview version of Wave-up you can visit our Google I/O Wave-up page.
Wave-up and some Google I/O goodies!
May 12th
Google I/O
If you haven’t heard yet wave.to are participating in the Google I/O bootcamp and sandbox next week. To coincide with Google I/O we are delighted to announce our Google I/O pages. If you are visiting Google I/O then this is your one stop page for all things wave.to, and if you’re not there’s a lot of useful information there and some new projects that we are working on so it is definitely worth checking out!
wave.to Q&A
Over the course of the next few weeks we are holding a public discussion on Wave and Mr-Ray public where you can ask us anything about the projects that we are working on. Even if you’re not visiting Google I/O we encourage you to get involved!
Wave-up
Finally we would like to announce our new service, Wave-up. If you are a Google Wave user you may know that Google Wave on mobile devices suffers from long loading times or browser crashes. Wave-up notifies you to any changes made to a Wave and gives you the ability to view and reply to it right from your android phone. You can find out all the details about Wave-up including screenshots and a demo video on the Google I/O Wave-up page. Wave-up will be made available for download shortly before Google I/O.
Check out the video below!
Mr-Ray gets a basket full of goodies
May 5th
It was just yesterday we were announcing the horde of new features that Mr-Ray is now sporting and he has a few more surprises! Firstly there have been a few bug reports about in-line blips not showing up correctly, but now thanks to some updates to the Wave Robot API we are able bring these to you! To spice your blips up a little bit we are also pleased to announce some formatting! Check out the screenshot below.
We hope you enjoy the new features!
Google I/O
May 4th
Google I/O is Google’s largest developer event held in San Francisco every year and wave.to have been invited to participate in the Developer Sandbox. The wave.to team will be showcasing some of our services including Mr-Ray, CRM integration and some new cutting edge products that we are still working on.
This is a great opportunity for us to meet other Wave developers and also for you to meet us. So if you have tickets for Google I/O stop by at the wave.to stand, say hi and have a play around with our exhibition! We will be posting full details about our attendance at Google I/O over the coming weeks so stay tuned!
Mr-Ray gets a make over and goes all public
May 3rd
Over the last month we’ve had some amazing feedback from our Mr-Ray users. We’ve also had a few bug reports (thanks keep them coming!) and plenty of feature requests! While we’ve been busy fixing the bugs in the background there haven’t been many new features arriving in the Wave. However today we are pleased to announce some highly requested new features! (If you’ve been following us on twitter or been watching our roadmap you might already know something about these).
Delete support for Mr-Ray users
You’re now able to delete e-mail participants just by clicking the delete button by their name! Simple as 1, 2, 3
Clearer e-mails
We’ve had a lot of feedback about the notification e-mails that you receive from Mr-Ray. People have also requested the ability to be able to add a personalised message to the first notification e-mail.
So based on your feedback and suggestions we have redesigned the notification e-mails and added a tool so you can send a message with the first invitation e-mail. When you add an e-mail participant you’re given the option to add your own personalised message. The message then appears in the invitation e-mail.
The new e-mails are much clearer to read and the information is displayed in a far less cluttered format. The e-mails also contain some brief details about what Mr-Ray and Google Wave are all about. We hope that this new format makes the e-mails less confusing and much easier to read! (Have you also noticed that the friendly display name is shown in the email now as well as the users wave address?)
Want to share a Wave with anyone? Make it public!
Inviting e-mail users into Wave is great but what would happen if you want to embed the Wave onto a webpage, or share it with a huge group of users? Well you could use Google Waves embed functionality but… you need a Google Wave account. Or you did! Now you can make a Wave public with Mr-Ray. Just click the “make public” link, select if you want it read only or editable and forward the link around to anyone who wants it! When someone replies using the public Wave-lite interface they are asked to enter their name then their replies appear in Wave just like a e-mail participants reply would! Awesome!
Making Wave-lite a little friendlier
Okay so Wave-lite isn’t quite as fully feature packed as Google Wave yet, but we are making improvements to bring you new functionality and make it just as useful! One place that Wave-lite was really missing out was the user friendly profile pictures and names. Well not any more! Fire up a new Wave with Mr-Ray and the participants details will be included in the Wave-lite interface. Superb!
So how do I get all these awesome new features?
Easy. Just start a new conversation with mr-ray@appspot.com! If you want to upgrade an existing Wave with Mr-Ray you can do it in just 3 simple steps:
- Delete the Mr-Ray robot (just mr-ray@appspot.com, there is no need to delete all the e-mail participants)
- Edit the blip with the “add e-mail users” gadget and delete the gadget. (Use the drop down menu that appears on the top right of the gadget when you hover over it)
- Add mr-ray@appspot.com again! He will sort the rest out for you!
Have fun and we hope you enjoy the improvements!
P.s. have you noticed Mr-Ray has had a bit of a make over? Check out his posh new logo!
Mr-Ray wins Mashables Google Wave API Challenge!
Apr 22nd
At the beginning of March Mashable launched a Google Wave API Challenge. The challenge was to create an extension for Google Wave using their new API. There were to be 3 voting categories, Most Fun, Most Useful and Best Use of the Embed API. Then one extension would be picked by a judge as an overall winner.
The winners in the peoples choice categories are Texas Holdem Poker for “Most Fun”, Wave Transformer for “Most Useful” and Resourcy for “Best Use of the Embed API”. Finally we are very proud to announce that the overall winning extension chosen by a judge is… Mr-Ray! Mr-Ray allows you to communicate with people still using e-mail from within Google Wave in an almost seamless way. If you haven’t already you should try him out!
For full details on all the entries and winners you should visit Mashables site.
Thanks to everyone who voted for Mr-Ray!
Mr-Ray planned features
Apr 8th
There has been a lot of excitement around Mr-Ray since its release and lots of feature requests. So to keep you up to date with what we are working on we have published our Mr-Ray roadmap. Take a look and see what you think. If you have a feature request why not contact us and we can look at including it into Mr-Ray.
Introducing Mr-Ray. Wav-e-mail integration!
Mar 29th
Google keep telling us that e-mail has been around for 40 years… and it has! Yet despite its flaws it is still here and used by over a billion people. So what makes e-mail so successful? Well the major advantage it has over any other communication platform on the internet is just about everyone has an address. You rarely find a regular internet user who doesn’t have an e-mail address.
So how can Google Wave ever hope to become the de-facto communication platform when only a handful of people have Google Wave accounts? Simple. Show e-mail users what they are missing; show them how Google Wave is better. This is easy for the more savvy computer users… in fact most savvy computer users have probably tried Wave already. But how do we bring it to the masses? Simple! Let e-mail users communicate with Google Wave while ensuring we do this without taking the Wave out of Wave. How can we do this?
We use Mr-Ray.
Who is Mr-Ray? Mr-Ray is the perfect solution to the Wave e-mail (wav-e-mail) communication problem. He allows you to add e-mail participants to a Wave and have them interact with Wave just like they are first class Wave users. It lets people who are not quite ready for Wave get used to it without needing a full blown account.
Mr-Ray is a huge project and is still in early development, we have many new ideas and features that we want to add to Mr-Ray so you can expect to see new updates and features over the coming months. As Mr-Ray is in constant development we do ask at times for you to be patient and if you find bugs, please report them.
For all the details about Mr-Ray including a full video demo visit the Mr-Ray page and have fun with your new wav-e-mail!