Comments on: Google Wave Email Notifications

By: César Izurieta

César Izurieta — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:50:40 +0000

Appengine (the servers where the robot runs) log everything but logs are recycled every couple hours or so (depending on traffic). Besides that the content of the wave is never saved anywhere else. You can take a look at the source code at http://wave-email-notifications.appspot.com or if you need more control you could even deploy your own version.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:57:47 +0000

Very useful and intuitive bot. Thanks!

What about privacy? Does the bot log the contents of the wave anywhere?

By: César Izurieta

César Izurieta — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:01:37 +0000

When you add it it will sned one email to every one on the wave letting them know you added it. After that they will need to opt in to receive further notifications. Take a look here there are some screenshots of how it works: http://wave-email-notifications.appspot.com/

By: Chris McGuinness

Chris McGuinness — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:53:00 +0000

If I were to add the bot to a wave, would that mean that every participant in the wave would get an email when the wave is updated, or is it only the person who added the bot or only the person who started the wave?

I am concerned that if I add this bot to a public wave then every single member of the wave will get an email each and every time it is updated – and you cannot remove a participant from the wave.

By: César Izurieta

César Izurieta — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:24:01 +0000

Well, there are a lot of features that could be implemented as commands. Right now I’m really leaning towards a generalized command API but I’ll continue thinking about that and working as time permits.

By: Germán Villacreces

Germán Villacreces — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:16:18 +0000

Should that be a separate robot? called Nudge or something like that, maybe the email notifications should be more of an API and then you can have an Updates robot and Nudge robot that use that API, just thinking out loud.

By: César Izurieta

César Izurieta — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:50 +0000

Sounds like a good idea. Right now I’m implementing a wave-based preferences system for the robot and I may add a command line there to execute commands like the one you propose.

By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:48:24 +0000

any chance of getting this to work as a sort of “nudging” system for wave… like when someone’s attention is needed in the wave you could type “nudge:waveuser” and it would send an email to just that participant saying “your attention is needed in the wave” or something more specific with a link to the wave. I would love it.