widgets
Web 2.0 meets online advertising
Posted on September 4, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, widgets |
“Get the Katie Gadget on your personalized homepage”… I’m not sure that statement would have much meaning a few years ago. As Web 2.0 goes mainstream marketers are finding clever ways to leverage Web 2.0 concepts such as consumer generated media, widgets and communities into online advertising.
The CBS Power of 10 Web site today [...]
Facebook – A Software Platform?
Posted on August 31, 2007. Filed under: Mashups, Web 2.0, social media, widgets |
Facebook is the second most popular social network next to MySpace. Since Facebook released it’s api its quickly evolved into a software platform and developers are building businesses around it. In just 10 weeks, hundreds of developers launched more than 2,500 new applications, triggering 139 million downloads.
Read the full Business 2.0 article “The Facebook [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Flawed
Posted on July 11, 2007. Filed under: widgets |
comScore today announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix, a new service to track the usage of widgets across the Web. comScore currently tracks Web widgets, which are data files that can be embedded into a site’s HTML code and are typically displayed in a small viewing pane on the site. They are most often used [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Twit This
Posted on June 14, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, widgets |
TwitThis is a Twitter add-on now available for microblogging site Twitter. The browser booklet add-on allows you to send post the page you are viewing to your Twitter account. There’s also a “TwitThis” button you can put on your personal page or website so that readers can automatically Twitt your page. Of course there’s a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Useful Web 2.0 Technology Acronyms
Posted on May 31, 2007. Filed under: widgets |
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
API: Application Programming Interface
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
REST: Representational State Transfer
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
XACML: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
XFN: XHTML Friends Network
XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
Sudoku 2.0
Posted on May 23, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, games, viral, widgets |
I found this cool Sodoku widget from Sudoku Park on Widgetbox. You can play billions (so they say) of Sudoku puzzles online from easy to evil and its all free. Sudoku solver, print sudoku ebook. also supplies Sudoku puzzles for newspapers, magazines, Sudoku books and websites.
Get great free widgets at Widgetbox!
For full [...]
meebo rooms
Posted on May 15, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |
Meebo just released a cool new feature called meebo rooms. Sandy from Meebo calls it “chat rooms on steroids”. Meebo rooms have a built in feature that enables you to create a room, add it to you buddylist (to receive notifications even when you’re not in the room), you can even embed the room on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google AJAX feed API
Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |
Today Google launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that allows users to develop mashups using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds.
@import url(“http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/tunebar/gftunebar.css”);
#tunebar {
[...]
Pageflakes Widgets
Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |
Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.
Got Widgets?
Now you can make any Flake a widget. [...]
Mobile Widgets
Posted on April 20, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, mobile, widgets |
WidSets is a free phone manufacturer-independent Internet service that multicasts preferred feeds and user-generated content to mobile devices. With it you can get mobile widgets, which are much like web widgets, or gadgets, with traffic alerts, news, blogs, gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads of other stuff that you would normally get through a [...]
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