Want to cover an event through Live Blogging ? Google Wave is all you need for Live blogging using Wordpress (or any other blogging or CMS platform like Drupal and Joomla ). Read on, to know how this can be done.
Install a Wordpress Plugin that embeds Google Wave in to your Blogpost, and then publish your wave on your blog, and you are ready for the show ! Now all you need to do is updating the wave, which will automatically update your blog post, real time.
Even before getting my invite to the Google Wave developer preview, I had started brainstorming new and interesting things I could contribute. One of the other things I wanted to try was embedding a wave into my Drupal site, since Blogger integration had already been demonstrated and I see a lot of potential in the combination of blogs and wave.
For the Drupal module, I began with their generic 6.x module tutorial . Since all I needed was to add a few pieces of javascript, it wasn't hard to do. I used the drupal_set_html_head() function to include the embed.js file, then used the drupal_add_js() function for the chunk of javascript specific to loading the wave into a container div.
Google wave is coming, well before Chrome OS, so stop being worried about Chrome and start thinking how to have fun with Google Wave. Isn’t that a better idea ? Now, let’s have some fun and find out some useful Google Wave Plugins for you to test as soon as you get an account.
1. Hobbity : A robot to make the urls shorten in the waves.
