Waving At OpenAustralia

So before I start on the Grand Adventure that is PlonieBot, I thought I would start with something smaller, with a much more limited API that I could practice against. I've also been wanting to play around with the OpenAustralia API and so openausbot was born.

The idea is to create a participant that can be used to search the Open Australia database and return the information to the wave for dicussion or further dissection by the participants. If you want to play with it, the id is openausbot@appspot.com. Just keep in mind it's pretty damn Alpha :)

I know people are starting to get annoyed with the very limited access that has been given out so far and I can understand why.

On the one hand I can see why the Google Wave people have limited access. Wave is still very much Alpha tech. It's not yet at the Beta stage that GMail has only just escaped, and as such, there could much breakage as it evolves rapidly. On the other hand the Wave could benefit from "Real World" usage. That is usage not only by people like me and other hackers, but by people who would use Wave as simply another communications tool. That's when the boundry pushing will really begin.