The features that make Google Wave most interesting as a social platform are Widgets and Robots (bots). The Google Wave Amazon MP3 Bot is a great example of a recently developed robot application.
What is a Wave Robot ? A robot is an application that is invited to participate in the wave just like you would invite a person. Once added to the wave as a participant, the robot performs a particular automated task. In the case of this robot application, the Amazon MP3 Bot, auto detects the artist name that one of the other participants types in and automatically converts identifiable artists, songs and albums into Amazon MP3 product links.
Rather than embed the excellent video demos here in my blog post, I would invite you to go to the Google Wave Amazon MP3 Bot micro-site blog. Not only is there a great Vimeo demo of the bot in action, but the author also shows how to install a robot. As many of you do not have a wave developer account yet and can’t try it out, you will definitely want to check this site out to get a taste of how Google Wave works.
Peter Huboi
Hi Peter,
We just released another Robot and Gadget for Google Wave at WithWaves.
The eBayBot allows social product research, auctions and shopping on ebay.com. Wave participants can share auctions & information with contacts in real-time. It can detect products and return inline auction and product links or a custom full auction browser.
Here it is in case anybody wants to check it out.
http://withwaves.com/ebay