http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ Got Bots? en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:11:36 +0000 http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/alerty#post-21 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:48:49 +0000 JohnLBevan 21@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>After a wave has been inactive for a few minutes, users are liable to leave that browser window/tab in the background &amp; go off to do their own thing. As a result, if their friend replies, they won't be aware until they manually check the wave tab.<br /> Having a bot which detects when a browser window/tab is not active and a new wave event occurs (e.g. the other user replying) after there has been a delay of a few minutes since the last wave activity would be useful. Once an alarm has sounded, it should remain silent until the user next activates that tab window (so that the user doesn't get annoyed if they're deliberately ignoring the wave whilst working on something else). </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/standards#post-19 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:29:41 +0000 JohnLBevan 19@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>Good point - you can tell I'm more used to coding for the command line ;) </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/standards#post-16 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:54:59 +0000 Admin 16@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>I think most of those should just be said when you ping the bot. It should open the ping wavelett and give you help/about/devsite info in there </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/standards#post-15 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:09:46 +0000 JohnLBevan 15@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>It would be good to establish some standard commands which all bots can implement, allowing you to quickly find out all a bot can do without having to go hunting for it.<br /> e.g.<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /? //see /help<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /help //brings up a list of commands available<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /about //displays a summary of what this robot does<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /devsite //provides a link to the developer's site<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /mode private //the bot's responses are only shown to the person who invited it<br /> <a href="mailto:botName@appspot.com">botName@appspot.com</a> /mode public //everyone in the wave sees the bot's responses </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/findme#post-9 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:39:50 +0000 JohnLBevan 9@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>Uses the GEO features of HTML 5 to locate where each wave user is and lets wavers know where their nearest wavers are. This could also take info about their interests to help match people up to folks whose hobbies they share. </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/recipe#post-8 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:38:43 +0000 JohnLBevan 8@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>Finds recipes based on ingredients or dish names in the wave.<br /> This could either use an internal database, or could use a scraping mechanism to collect recipes from common cooking sites. </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/pretty-%e2%80%93-pretty-print#post-7 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:52 +0000 JohnLBevan 7@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>Detects common languages / markup &amp; changes the layout to make it more readable (i.e. by putting in line breaks and spacing as required) </p> http://googlewavebots.info/forum/topic/webby-%e2%80%93-the-web-service-robot#post-6 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:13:49 +0000 JohnLBevan 6@http://googlewavebots.info/forum/ <p>A robot which when added, detects any URLs in the wave which point to web services, then generates a form based on the parameters, which a user fills out &amp; then clicks subit. The bot then submits this data via SOAP, and puts the return value into a new blip. </p>