Rosy not working

As you may know, I recently got my Google Wave account and I have wanted to use some of the web-bots to make it cooler. The one that I'm interested in the Rosy, the instant translator. Rosy was designed so that translation can happen with any combination of the 40 most spoken languages.

My Gmail account has the default language of Italian. I do this, because I speak Italian and kinda like to stay current with the technical terms of Italian. I've been trying to get Rosy to automatically translate my wave posts into Italian, but I can't get it working? I think that maybe I have a bad link to the web-bot. When I add it, about 100 blips are added to my wave for any character that is added to the wave. It's hairy and has a lot of bugs. I'll keep working on it, but it's a Google product and that's why it's currently Beta, like everything that Google creates.

I'll keep you posted.

Google Wave and getting used to it.

I just recently got my Google Wave invite. I was really excited about it. Especially because I signed up to do a presentation on Google Wave and still didn't have an account the week before it was due.

Google Wave is a new collaboration, web-based protocol for better and "awesomer" communication. This was designed to eliminate the multiple copies of emails, frustration with instant messanger, and multiple documents for the same topic.

One of the things that I had to get used to was how to comment, edit, and reply to waves. After watching a few YouTube videos and messing around a bit on my own, I could really find the usefulness of Google Wave.

I'm really looking forward to using this more. For example, my wife and I and a few friends are really into emergency preparedness. It's a lot of fun to have interesting articles, comment in-line to others comments, and other things. I'm looking forward to getting the "Web-bots" to work.
Stay tuned.