Robots
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!
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!
Google Announce new API! We give out free guides!
Mar 2nd
Google have just announced their new v2 robot API available for Java and Python! The new api brings exciting and highly requested features including the active API, proxying for and a redesigned event handling mechanism!
Here at wave.to we have been busy playing around with the new API since late last year and we’ve experienced many pleasures and difficulties in developing on the new platform. So to help all you developers out there we have put together a few short guides to get you started! These guides demonstrate performing simple actions with the new API and include everything from creating a simple robot that responds to a users events to proxying for non-wave participants! Best of all these guides are in Java and Python so no matter which flavour of the API you choose there is help there for you! Head over to the new Simple guides for the robot API v2 page to get started and happy developing!
Rssybot 2 moves into testing
Jan 20th
Happy new year to all! (Slightly belated as it may be). A completely new version of Rssybot has just moved into the first stages of testing. Rssybot 2 utilises the new yet to be released Robot API v.2 from google and is the first robot I have coded in python. Stay tuned for it’s initial roll out soon and a source code release!
Rssybot back online!
Oct 25th
After an almost complete re-write Rssybot is back online and functioning correctly. Rssybot is still in it’s infancy though so you may experience bugs and errors. If you do, please contact me so that I can repair the bug.
Rssybot press & overloading news
Oct 6th
Rssybot has been rated number 9 in the top 11 robots for enterprise! Check out the press sectionfor more info! Unfortunately in just two days he become overloaded with users and stopped working. In order to fix this it is going to take a significant recode and rethinking so for the time being he will just download the new feed for you. He wont keep it updated. I have added a status section to the Rssybot page where you can find more information and I will of course post updates here when they become available.
Starify fixed & Wave Live Messenger update
Oct 6th
There has been a problem with starify for a while meaning that you could not link to starred waves or delete them. This has been repaired. Wave Live Messenger still has issues; The password field only works in firefox. Google are aware of this problem. If you use firefox it signs you in but the ‘refresh’ button does not work. This appears to be a bug with Wave not returning all the child blips and just stopping the robot execution. A bug report has been made and I am hoping for some feedback on this soon.
Rssybot goes into the workshop to have arm replaced…
Oct 4th
…comes out with new leg! A fair bit of work has gone on under the hood of Rssybot to fundamentally improve the way he works. This did unfortunately lead to about 16 hours of down time on friday and has also meant that you have probably lost any subscriptions that you have with him. Rssybot also feels very laggy at the moment and I am working towards a fix for this. But on the good side I am hoping that he will not lose your subscriptions again, (Fingers crossed on this!) and the changes under the hood should lead to improvements and pave the way for new features in the future!
Cron working again
Oct 2nd
Cron jobs are up an running for robots again, so rssybot and wave live messenger should work now!