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  1. It’s Easter. So Chill Out, Try Wave, Check out Mr-Ray and Say Hello!

    In honour of a couple of Wave extensions that allow wave-to-email collaboration, I thought I’d try something light-hearted instead of my usual wordy post. Mr-Ray is a bot/gadget combo from wave.to, that lets you add people to a wave by their email address, and they get sent a stripped back version of the wave that they can use to collaborate with you, without having to figure out and navigate the full-blown Wave interface. Embedded below is an example of the interface the email user sees. Please note, this isn’t the way the developers recommend using Mr-Ray — the address should be kept secret to avoid people posing as you. In this case, I KNOW it’s not me!

    I’ve got a short holiday thanks to Easter, so I’ll leave this up until Wednesday to get to know my readers and give the non-wavers a chance to see a little bit how it works. I’ll check back regularly to reply so you come back too! If you’re already on wave and want to reply as you, contact me at nunn.joshua@googlewave.com and I’ll add you directly.
    More!

  2. The Problem with Embedding

    You’ve reached a page that contains content from Google Wave. We’re currently in a developer preview with a limited number of users. If you have an account please log in at wavesandbox.com.
    Embedding my first Google Wave into WordPress!

    The problem with embedding waves in blogs — no one can read them if the service goes down or won’t allow you access. Better would be to have the wave actually publish content to your database. Then a WordPress plugin that takes comments written and puts them back into your wave stream would be necessary. Better would be blog software written on the Wave Protocol.

  3. Embed and Extend

    The Google Wave APIs come in two flavors: Embed and Extensions. With Embed, you’re able to bring waves into your own site through a simple JavaScript API. For example, embedding a wave in a webpage is a good way to encourage a discussion among the visitors. With Extensions, you’re able to write programs, which are packaged as Robots or Gadgets, that provide rich functionality inside the Google Wave web client.

    Introducing the Google Wave APIs

  4. PDFmenot.com vs Vuzit.com

    Just testing pdfmenot.com — a tool from the people behind bugmenot.com, retailmenot.com and cushycms.com. It lets you read a PDF in your browser without downloading it, and even embed a pdf in another page with a bit of javascript. Also trying out an alternative, vuzit.com.

    More!