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Google wave is a great tool for collaboration , sharing , working and team tracking as well as a project management , its an interactive dynamic collaborating tool for teams . As Google wave built to be extend-able with new features powered by community of developers who also are users , they improve many features as well as adding many new other features to Wave , through flexible API developers manage to create extensions as well as make an automated buddies which more features .

In this article i will post a list of the most useful for researchers and doctors , but first of all what is in Google wave for doctors and researchers ?

• Connectivity : Interactive , real-time and dynamic connectivity with teams , colleagues for discussion , sharing and tracking .
• Sharing : Ideas , Resources , Thoughts , Concepts ,
• Collaboration : as a project management tool ,
• Brain storming : Interactive brain storming ,
• Project management ,
• Collaborative writing : very handy for researchers to collaborate in writing articles , papers ….
• Dynamic Discussion : included as real-time discussion .

Google Wave bots :

The bot is an automated contact robot , has an ID as ” example-bot@googlewave.com ” , it works soon as you add it to your waves contributers list , to enable it to a certain wave just add it as a contributer to this wave .

Useful Google wave bots for researchers and doctors :

• 1- Madoqua : blog-bot@appspot.com ,

It enables the user to embed the wave in their blogs and other web publishing CMS ,

• 2 – PDF Wave Exporter – pdf-wave@appspot.com :

It exports the wave to a PDF file .

• 3 – Inbeddable – inbeddable@appspot.com :

Allowing adding pictures from online resources since the Google wave does not support that yet .

• 4 – Wikybot – wikybot@appspot.com :

For highlighted topics, inserts short description from Wikipedia in a new blip.

• 5 – Syntaxy – kasyntaxy@appspot.com :

Syntaxy does blip-by-blip syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including Python, Java, C, C++, html, css and javascript.

• 6 – Wikify – wikifier@appspot.com :

Adding links and info summary from Wikipedia into a new blip , just define the term as in <wikify informatics> .

• 7 – Sweepy : sweepy-wave@appspot.com :

it removes empty blips . Personally i suffer from empty blips so i consider this bot very useful to add it to this list .

• 8 – Ferry – ferrybot@appspot.com :

Lets you export waves into Google Docs .

• 9 – Chart Bot – chart-bot@appspot.com :

Embed charts and diagrams from Google Chart API service. Check the bot`s page for usage information .

• 10 – WordPress Publishing bot : wp-bot@appspot.com :

To publish your waves to wordpress blogs it requires wordpress plugin to work wavrt to be installed on wordpress .

• 11 – Bloggy – blog-wave@appspot.com :

It publishes the content of waves to a blog site.

• 12 -Tweety – tweety-wave@appspot.com :

To track down your twitter account in real-time .

• 13 – Wave-Map – wave-map@appspot.com :

Adding Google Maps into your wave .

• 14 – Wave ToolKit bot – wave-toolkit@appsbot.com :

It has very useful tools as integrating RSS feed into wave , Searching Google news and other features .

• 15 – Groupy – groupy-robot@appspot.com :

Robot to manage groups.

• 16 – Style Chart Robot – stylechart@appspot.com :

Inserts a chart into a wave.

• 17 – Tocgen ” Table Of Content ” – tocgen@appspot.com :

Auto-generate Table of Contents auto-generated and updated based on the h1,h2,h3,h4 in a wave.

• 18 – Taggy – taggy-wave@appspot.com :

It Recognize #hashtags and add them as tags to the wave .

Google Wave extensions :

Here is a collection for the most useful Google Waves extensions for researchers and doctors .

• 1 – ProcessWave.org Diagram Editor Google Wave extension :

A fully collaborative diagram editor for Google Wave. It exports to UML , BPMN ” Business process Modeling Notation ” , FMC ” Fundamental Modeling Concepts ” , EPC ” Event-Driven Process Chains ”

• 2 – Manage Tasks Google Wave Extension :

It adds a ToDo list and Tasks manager capability to your Google Wave .

• 3 – Unawave – Projects management extension for Google Wave .

• 4 – ConceptDraw – Mind Mapping Google Wave extension .

Enables you to create collaborative mind maps with contacts . For usage instructions and tutorials check Concept draw mind maps extension page .

• 5 – Mind Map gadgets – Google wave Mind mapping extension .

Another Google wave extension for mind mapping .

• 6 – PulsOn : Idea rating Google Wave extension .

• 7 – DocXwave import/export – a Google Wave Extension to enables documents exporting of waves :

Convert/import Microsoft Word (doc/docx/rtf) and OpenOffice (odt/sxw) documents, and export to docx.

Honorable mention and very important bot ” out of the list ” :

Seekdroid ” Google Wave bots looking-up and search tool ” – seekdroid@appspot.com :

You can list Robots, add them and find them out, easy to use. In continuous development. Website with all the information seekdroid.appspot.com.

Well Thats it for now . if you found any useful Google Wave extensions or Google Wave bot , please don’t hasitate to add it in a comment in this post .