This is my first attempt at a bot/extension review, I hope you find it useful. Please let me know if you want me to do more of those!
If you have spent any time investigating the public waves, you are bound to have seen votely… It normally looks something like this:
Upon Clicking on the plus (or minus, if you disliked the wave you found it in), it would transform into this:
Well, you might not have been aware, that in addition to recording how many people liked the wave, it also kept a database of the most popular public waves, which you can see at the waverz website.
Votely is not a simple extension, but rather a combination of extension and bot. The extension takes care of the visual aspects of the app, while the bot handles the communication with the site. in order to add votely toa wave, simply add the user wavevotely@appspot.com, which will then automatically add the extension to the initial blip of the wave. You should really add votely only to public waves, although there is nothing stopping you from adding it to private waves
The Votely site offers an RSS feed of the voted on waves, as well as the ability to view the most recently voted on, and the most popular waves.
Votely is a useful little app to keep an eye on the Wavesphere. My only objection is that its current look and feel does not match wave completely (at least for me).
I do think that there is room for expansion, for example, being able to see the most popular tags would be a nice addition to it, and a dedicated wave (perhaps in addition to the site) with the results would be nice.
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