Cellblock has just posted a breakthrough release, extending the scope of
its real-time, collaborative photo and video blogging widget to the
desktop space.
With just a few clicks, anyone can download a cellblock to their desktop
for viewing or to upload content. To upload content, someone simply drags
& drops photos and videos from their desktop onto the desktop widget and
it instantly updates, everywhere - on every desktop and on every website
it’s embedded.
Anyone can attach these Cellblock Desktop Widgets to emails - meaning you
can now have a single 150K attachment that displays an unlimited amount of
photo and video content, streamed in real-time from cellblock.com. This
attachment acts as a dynamic content container, that is instantly
updatable and never out of synch, no matter where it is being viewed or
when it was downloaded.
The applications for this are staggering. You could imagine a company
party, where everyone is taking photos and videos with their cell phones
or digital cameras. After the party, someone sends a cellblock around, as
an attachment on the company mailing list. Employees simply double click
on the attachment (opening it on their desktop), then they drag and drop
their photos and videos into it and the entire company can see them,
instantly.
This is a truly revolutionary concept and technology.
Additionally, Cellblock has extended its content controls, adding Email
Whitelists and New Content Notification. File size limits have been
increased to 10MB for both photo and video content, making it extremely
easy to post digital camera photos from the desktop space. We take care
of all the resizing for you, so you simply drag & drop the content and
that’s it.
To give this revolutionary new technology a spin, please visit:
As before, Cellblock is a free service and the storage space is unlimited.
Sincerely,
Justin Blemly
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* Cellblock Desktop Widgets only supported for Windows users, presently
“The technology we’ve developed, code-named Dokodemo, affirms the
post-browser widget era by erasing browser/desktop distinctions. A
traditional uploading implementation requires a user to download and
install separate desktop software for uploading content to their web-sited
album or widget. With Dokodemo, the widget encapsulates all end-use
functionality whether it is on a desktop or in a website.”
lilypie.com has a whole bunch of customizable counters for expecting parents and new parents.
You can add custom text and images. There are options for many different backgrounds and the size is customizable as well.
The code page allows you to select for blog posts and signature lines in forums and email.
I discovered lilypie.com on a cool site called dailybadge.com
here is dailybadge’s about statement…
At least once a day, DailyBadge will uncover a new badge or widget, those fun little things that make our blogs, myspace and web pages that much cooler.
Using Yahoo Pipes Daniel Raffel has created a very popular pipe the takes keywords from the front page of the NY Times and then searches Flickr for a photo that is tagged with that keyword. Pipes then provides you a RSS feed for the results.
I put the feed into Grazr.
I remember when “widgets” were simply things that you could add to your blog. Extras or add-ons. A little something to add some color or simple functionality to your plain, text only side bar. It was a time, when, if you found something, a widget, on some obscure blog, it was exciting. You actually had to hunt it down a bit. Put in some effort. It was fun.
Now it seems as though… if the year of the widget doesn’t happen…it’ll be the end of the world. Oh and by the way…if you don’t make any money with your widget thingy your a failure as well.
WTF…does everything have to have a business model?
Widgets are Profitable!
If it gets people to recognize your brand…it’s profitable!
If it gets people to visit your site…it’s profitable.
If it makes others want to have one…it’s profitable.
If it makes businesses want to hire you to create a widget for them…Now you have a business model.
Let the work sell itself.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work much for widgets. Today…widget A. Tomorrow…widget B replaces widget A. …and so on and so on.
Widgets quit being fun as soon as they became business!
Did you know that you can create a widget that combines your MyBlogVisitors with their del.icio.us tags?
Then you can simply add it to your side bar.
How about creating a badge from any RSS feed?
If creating widgets interests you… Head over to Brewster’s Field guide (kentbrewster.com) for information on how to create these widgets and also how to start creating your own widgets.
blogarate.com together with whooiz.com have created a what? …an Avatar visitor tracking community profile site (MyBlogLog) and paired it with a rate my post/site.
This is great! Hopefully I am allowed to see and track whoever is giving me poor ratings.
I sure hope that they allow video uploading soon. I know that you can upload podcasts on your whooiz profile as well as use a naked woman for an avatar.
One thing I did notice about the rate widget…it’s more of a “plug in”.
I couldn’t just add it to my template. I would actually have to break out the FTP program and add it to the files on the server.
So I think this alone puts it head and shoulders above the average user.
The blogarate and wHooiz sites are well put together and easy to navigate. I would say that if you are looking for a change from MBL you will probably feel right at home here.
As you can see this is still beta. But it’s still fun and you can add it to your MySpace profile.
The musical part allows you to choose some styles of elevator tunes. I turned off the music on my widget. Some visitors bitch when I have musical widgets. So in the interests of building traffic I kiss ass where need be.
I just wanted to let you know that Widgets Lab is moving to a new server.
I’m not sure about the exact time, when this will happen.
I have tried to make this happen myself but was unable to. The online help for this type of thing is very sketchy and when you do find something that pertains to your specific problem…there is an assumption by the author of the resource that the user has a pre set amount of knowledge about the topic in question.
Acronyms are thrown around like birdseed. FTP this and PHP that. Set your server permissions, back up your database, fuck up your day!
Tech support on the new server side is non-existent. About the best they can do is point you to the online resources that failed you to begin with.
Worst possible scenario…Widgets Lab starts from scratch…0 posts 0 archives 0 resources.
Cellblock.com is a service that allows you to post photos and video to a widget from anywhere you can send an email.
What a great idea !
Lets say you see some news worthy video and you manage to capture it on your mobile phones camera. You can instantly email it to your Cellblock widget and it will be displayed for any of your blog readers to view.
What else can I do?
You can open up your Cellblock to anyone that wants to post photos and video to your widget. This could essentially create a mobile band of video journalists for your blog.
What about offensive content?
You can set up your Cellblock widget so you have complete control over what content gets added. You are the chief editor!
AffiliateBrand.com has a great “Popular Posts” widget.
What does it do?
This widget allows you to display links to some of your most popular posts in an attractive, fully customizable widget.
With this widget you are able to give it a custom title that suits you needs. Choose how many posts are listed. Determine how far in the past you want to look. 1 day, 30 days, 135 days or whatever.
This widget is built to fit!
You can choose the height and width. This is one of the most important aspects for widget use. If it doesn’t fit…it don’t get used.
What about colors?
This is a bit tricky. If you don’t have CSS experience or you don’t have a link to a CSS style sheet, you get to use to color scheme provided. Perhaps in the future you will be able to customize your colors easier. Don’t let this stop you from using the widget though.
This widget will stay on Widgets Lab !
I can already see the value of such an addition to this blog.
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