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How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker

How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker: "The XMPP Lite Bot: One of the issues with adopting Google Wave into your workflow is the whole 'yet another inbox' problem. If you're working on a project in Wave but forget to check it every day, you can get notifications of wave updates via IM. The XMPP Lite bot can GChat you as project waves get updated. To use it, add the bot to your contacts (its Wave ID is wave-xmpp@appspot.com), and then add that same contact to your GTalk contacts list. Add the bot to any wave you want IM notifications from, and click the Subscribe button."

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