We just released the WithWaves AmazonMP3Bot – a Google Wave robot and gadget – which enables social mp3 music research and shopping on Amazon.com. The AmazonMP3Bot gadget and bot can detect audio products and return inline links based on a Wave conversation or keyword query autodetecting artist name, song title, or album. Check out more videos and info at with waves

Over the past few months we've learned more about how extensions are used in Google Wave, and made it easier to create and install extensions. To help you build user-friendly extensions, we've prepared two new documents:

1) Google Wave Extension Design Principles

• Make it Wave-y
• Make it Easy to Use
• Make it Easy to Install
• Make it Look Good
• Make it Useful -- or Fun!

2) Extension Installers Guide

Continued from part 2: unified messaging.
Google Wave provides two ways to add new features to Wave: robots and gadgets.
A robot resides on a Wave provider and receives all updates for those waves it participates in. Robots can also update wave content, for example by automatically replacing www.google.com with http://www.google.com. Other examples of robots in the demo video is the spell checker and the translation feature.
A gadget resides on the Wave client (in the browser) and changes the look and feel of the wave. A Sudoku game could for example be a gadget.
Robots are ideal for heavy computations, and when access to external data is required – like a CRM database or a web service – which cannot be accessed by a browser.

Everyone’s been talking about it: Google Wave. Google’s super communication tool has been a top trend on Twitter, a focus of media speculation, and was even able to knock Microsoft’s Bing from the top of the news cycle. But almost all the hype has been based on the demos - almost nobody’s actually got to try out Google Wave.

Well, thanks to a few of our friends, we had the opportunity today to try out the alpha version of this groundbreaking new service. From creating waves to joining in on discussions, we put the newest Google sensation through the ringer. Does Google Wave stand up to the hype?

Without a doubt, the product that has the entire web buzzing right now is Google Wave, the search giant’s newly announced communication platform. Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide, but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave.