jWave - Embed your waves with jQuery

6 views
Skip to first unread message

jaz...@gmail.com

unread,
Jun 4, 2009, 2:57:24 AM6/4/09
to Google Wave API
You knew it was bound to happen :)

Links:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jWave

http://azoffdesign.com/demos/scripts/jwave/

Enjoy.

P.S. working on this script made me realize two things

1) The way the API loads an iframe is going to make SEO and parsing a
nightmare.
2) CSS styling (due to the cross-domain i-frame) is impossible outside
of the API setUIConfig() routine

endymion

unread,
Jun 4, 2009, 10:15:23 AM6/4/09
to Google Wave API
Nice!

Is an embedded wave going to be relevant to search marketing at all?
If you search in Google for something and that phrase is in some wave,
then Google is going to show you a URL for that wave that points
directly to wave.google.com or whatever. Not your web page with the
embedded wave in it. Your example would rank well on "jWave v1.0
(Beta)" because it's in your page title, but not on phrases only found
in the wave itself.

For SEO, your web page itself would have to include relevant content.
Possibly extracted from a wave by a robot, but I don't think that
you're going to get any SEO value out of the contents of an embedded
wave. For example, maybe you have a page that compiles a lot of
related waves together and indexes them. That index page might rank
on a search phrase if it's got a good title and description of its own
and relevant key phrases in the meat of the page, PLUS embedded waves
and wavelets. But your leaf pages that are simply containers for
embedded waves are going to rank below the Google-hosted URLs for the
waves themselves. Most of the time.

Correct?

jaz...@gmail.com

unread,
Jun 4, 2009, 4:20:54 PM6/4/09
to Google Wave API
That sounds about right.

My only concern is that I wanted to use my wave as a makeshift blog
(like a Web 3.0 blog or something) and I was turned off by the fact
that waves are not as easily indexed as, say, WordPress content. But,
in retrospect, that may not be the intention of a wave and I might
just have to make a plug-in that handles that stuff for me. Thanks for
your input though, it definitely gives me a lot to think about.

bjoern

unread,
Jun 5, 2009, 3:17:55 AM6/5/09
to Google Wave API
Hey there!

Nice work, but at least for me it's not working properly.

At first load, only a white blank, on second load there's Dr. Wave (on
a black background). On third, only black. (I see your text line, but
that's it, and I'm on chrome btw).

I suppose you haven't made your wave public by adding (wild guess)
p...@wave.google.com

Or would you rather add individual testers like me:
bjo...@wavesandbox.com

On the SEO issue / "blogging"/publishing waves: you could just create
a wordpress posting robot that uses xml-rpc or something like that.

Cheers

Bjoern

PS: Just wave to me :-)
Message has been deleted

jazoff

unread,
Jun 5, 2009, 4:22:20 PM6/5/09
to Google Wave API, bjoern
Hey Bjoern,

your right, its not public because I wanted to add real blog behavior
to the wave before I make it public. I added you as a participant so
you should be able to view it now :)

Regards,

Jon
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages