247262 Resource 187691 21 21 1261080578879 1261080754805 Controlled Read Onlie: A Read-only Robot for Google Wave

Necessity is the mother of invention.

<p>One feature that Google wave is lacking is the ability to create read-only blips.&nbsp; Well, a new Google wave robot, cleverly (confusingly?) named “Read Onlie” offers a creative solution.&nbsp; As the <a title="Read-Onlie Bot: A robot for google wave" href="http://code.google.com/p/readonliebot/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">project documentation</a> puts it:</p> <blockquote> <p>[The <strong>readonliebot@appspot.com</strong> robot] records the original wave content. Whenever it's edited, the content is replaced with the original. Simple as that.</p></blockquote> <p>After adding the robot to a wave, you can protect a blip by adding one of three keywords (case sensitive) to the any blip: <ul> <li><strong>OWNERONLY</strong> – nobody can edit except the owner of the blip <li><strong>READONLY</strong> – nobody can edit the blip including the owner <li><strong>RESTORE</strong> – restores the parent blip data (still needs work)</li></ul> <p>Perhaps a little clunky, but until the platform supports blip-level access controls, it’s better than nothing.</p> 10 application/xml false Google wave how to MySmartChannels/6 (mailto:info@myst-technology.com; MyST Blogsite MetaWeblog API 6.00.0828) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 205.145.142.200 false true false false true 188081 false false true false false false true 187691 blog blogsite/FASeidl/web