Sure would be nice to have an iPhone

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 30th 2007

That way I could talk about third party widgets for the iPhone.

….anyone?

…hello?

NON Widget Opinion

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 30th 2007

This has to be Asian SPAM run through a translator if I am not mistaken.

Dear Sir or Madam:
Sorry to take your precious time.
We are an Electronic Commodity Global Trade Company, our commodity for example: tv, notebooks, phones, psp, projectors, dvd, mp3/4, GPS,musical instruments ….
After many year experimental investigation, our commodity is outstanding, and the price is lower .As well as we have established the VIP member. If you order the massive goods, the price must be cheaper. Adapt The seller wholesale and Personal order .If you intested in, please land our website and contact with us.
Our website is: http://www.nyqbw.com
MSN/EMAIL: nyqbw@hotmail.com
skype : nyqbw1
ICQ : 396737552
I hope we will cooperate happy. Good luck for you!

“I hope we will cooperate happy”

Come on…Who talks like this?

mp3 Player Generator

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 29th 2007

Create your own custom mp3 player

FancyGens/mp3playergen (for the above mp3 player)

FancyGens.com

Pirates of the Caribbean sound box

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 29th 2007

Fun sound bytes from Cap’n Jack Sparrow

FancyGens/piratescaribbean (for the sound box above)

FancyGens.com

mashface.com MySpace toys

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 29th 2007

Fun MySpace graphics and more

Mashface/textpic (for above graphic)

Mashface.com

New Feedster New widget

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 28th 2007

Feedster.com unveiled a new website interface and widget combination today. The widget displays search results in an RSS style format.

Here is a quote from Rachel Boltz on the Feedster blog.

“To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it’s quite apparent that we decided to keep only the name from the old design. Everything else we set aside, in favor of our newer, shinier self.

Another obvious change is that our content channels, labeled “Feed Buzz”, now occupy a much more prominent place on our site. Each channel has been built from hand-selected feeds that match the general topic. The criteria for selection were as follows:

1) Frequent updates
2) Widely read
3) Largely and consistently confined to one topic
4) Valuable information

The best part about the channels is that you can now take them with you. In fact, every channel AND search on our site are completely portable with the new Feedster widget.” Here’s the entire blog post from Feedster.

It’s cool because you get a different perspective on whats out there. This is Google Clip without having to physically click the share button.

Particulars
This is a JavaScript widget. It’s free and very user friendly. Check out the cool widget customization pane. It allows you to custom design your widget with a title, custom background colors and you can size it too!

Crazy amounts of widgets How do I keep up

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 27th 2007

Group polling via web widget

CircleUp, Inc., today announced the availability of an embeddable MyQuestions widget for any Web site, blog or social network serving groups. With the CircleUp widget embedded in an organization or event Web site, users can communicate powerfully with their group right from their site, saving time and enhancing group information, collaboration and productivity.

To start using CircleUp in any site, a site admin simply visits the “FreeTools” section of the CircleUp site at circleup.com, grabs a snippet of HTML code and drops it into any chosen location on their group site or social network. It’s a breeze to plug in and manage on almost any site that supports iFrames. All branding in the area surrounding the widget is controlled by the organization and branding inside the widget is simple, basic and references CircleUp.

Video channel widget

Mefeedia.com The “What I’m Watching” widget displays the latest 10 video thumbnails that are in your channel, which updates automatically as new videos come in from the feeds that you are subscribed to. This enables you to display the latest videos that you are interested in directly on your blog or anywhere you like (as long as it supports Javascript!). Each of the thumbnails goes to play the video itself. In addition, people can click on the links above and below the video thumbs to view your profile on Mefeedia. It is a great way to keep updated and share with your blog/vlog viewers what other videos you like.

Increasing/Decreasing the number of videos displayed
In the code that you have to copy and paste, change the “10.js” to a number you would like to show, up to 50 videos! For example, to decrease the number of videos displayed from ten to six change “10.js” to “6.js”. To show more, change “10.js” to “20.js”. It tops out at displaying 50 videos.

ePals Q&A widget

Ask ePALS is a service that brings together educators and experts from around the world and connects them with people looking for answers to questions that are specific to education.

We believe that every person is multi-faceted. A unique combination of professional history, personal experience, acquired hobbies and pursued interests nurture the uniqueness in every one of us. That unique individuality is an invaluable resource when shared.

Do we need another Q&A widget?

Anything is possible. If the service and widget offer some very unique features it may take off. there is stiff competition from Yahoo! Answers, Yedda, AnswerBag, Fun Advice and others. The Jury is out on this one.

3 Guppies–Content mobilization

3 Guppies.com Send MySpace to Any Cell Phone

Place a button anywhere you post pictures and video to send them directly to a cell phone.

Music
Create your own MP3 ringtones for free or search
our huge catalog of premium ringtones.

Pictures
Download your own, or browse our extensive
collection of free pictures.

Videos
Watch and share videos on your phone.

MySpace and More
Mobilize pictures and video posted on MySpace
and other sites to any cell phone.
Always FREE

You don’t need to buy anything, now or ever.
3Guppies doesn’t charge to mobilize stuff.

Gwen Stefani is Hot!

This pic is a link

With the Attendio widget you can keep track of her tour, buy tickets, email event info to friends etc…

The Attendio widget takes events entered at attendio.com and shows them on any webpage, including MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and other sites.

The widget is a great tool for bands, sports teams, or anyone passionate about sharing event information. It works on many sites including MySpace, Facebook, TypePad, NetVibes, Friendster, Blogger, Windows Live, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Freewebs and Webwag.

There are other artists as well…The Police, 311, Counting Crows, Beyoncé and The Vans Warped Tour

The Attendio widget is based on Clearspring technologies.

“The standard Internet advertisement is so familiar that most people tune it out: a billboard stripped across the top of a Web site, waiting for consumers to surf by and maybe click on it.

Now a young generation of online-ad creators are pushing a newer idea: putting a brand on a mini-site so fun or useful — a video game or a spruced-up calculator or a live sports update — that people download it, paste it on their personal blogs or social networking sites, use it again and again and share it with friends.”

WashingtonPost.com — April 9, 2007

Electionvine Election poll widget

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 27th 2007

You can embed a US Presidential election poll on your blog.

Newsvine has created a widget that allows you to have your own personal Presidential election poll. It’s aptly named…Electionvine

What is it?
This is a Flash widget that should work on MySpace (unless it’s too much for the MySpace election stuff. Then it will be blocked)

Looking at the widget you can see that it is dark in color…(hopefully this is no indication as to how the campaign is going to play out.) The major candidates are represented and you can choose which one you endorse.

Some opinion stuff!
The voting results are simple to understand. What I am seeing early on, is a comanding lead by Barack Obama across two different polls. TechCrunch/Electionvine and the Electionvine main page.

Of course, we know that this can change…maybe.

Harry Potter widget

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 26th 2007

EA Games has created the “Wizarding Widget”

Here is some info from Harry Potter Fan Zone.com

EA has released a Wizarding Widget to coincide with the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game which comes out tomorrow. According to EA, “The Wizarding Widget allows you to take loads of amazing mini-games and put them on YOUR website.” Further more, “Completing tasks and beating certain scores will mean you can unlock amazing content, only to be found within the Wizarding Widget. If you manage to discover ALL of the hidden content in the Room of Rewards, you will be given access to an amazing secret area on the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Videogame website!” Check out this cool new feature here thanks to The Snitch.

This is a Flash widget. It’s also viral. (you friends can get a copy from your widget!)

link to the widget: Wizarding Widget

Check out Harry Potter countdown widgets !

PROPAGANDA III WIDGET

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 26th 2007

This is Propaganda!…As a “Mobile WallPaper”…Can I make a Dime with it?

START MOBILE, the independent mobile content company, today announced the launch of another revolutionary mobile content WIDGET, powered by XLR8 Mobile’s “WapItUp!” mobile commerce platform.

The PROPAGANDA III WIDGET makes political artwork from around the world available to mobile consumers globally, via a mobile content widget that instantly brings mobile commerce to ANY website.

http://www.xlr8mobile.com /PROPAGANDAwidget

PROPAGANDA III is a traveling exhibition of political posters from around the world, created by the START SOMA GALLERY in San Francisco. Following the July 4, 2007 opening at the infamous Phoenix Hotel, PROPAGANDA III will tour the globe through 2008, with dozens of one day art shows worldwide - the current schedule includes stops throughout North America, South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. There will be no curation and absolutely no censorship of any sort. Expressed political viewpoints, be they left, right, or center, will be displayed side-by-side, both in the real world and online, where they are accessible through a dedicated FLICKR GALLERY:

http://www.flickr.com/photos /startpropaganda

15 works of political poster art (representing artists from Argentina, Croatia, Spain, and the United States), are now available as cell phone wallpapers via the PROPAGANDA III WIDGET - with ALL the proceeds donated to the non-profit Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

“As the founder of both START SOMA (the gallery) and START MOBILE (the mobile content company), I was in a unique position to do something pretty cool with this amazing artwork,” observed John Doffing. “And since the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles is going to be the permanent archive for PROPAGANDA III, we thought that we would use this unprecedented new medium for the distribution of artwork to help them raise some money and support their great efforts.”

After PROPAGANDA III travels the world, the posters will be donated to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles. CSPG’s growing archive currently contains more than 60,000 domestic and international posters produced in a staggering array of visual styles and printing media, dating from the Russian Revolution to the present. With 95% of the archive dating from the 1960s to the present, CSPG maintains the largest archive of post World War II political posters in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world.

“Making political posters available as cell phone wallpapers is certainly unprecedented,” according to CSPG Executive Director Carol A. Wells. “And if the PROPAGANDA III WIDGET works the way we hope it will, we are not only bringing some amazing political artwork to the nearly three billion cell phones in the world today, but we also just created a new modality for non-profit arts fundraising!”

THE FUTURE OF MOBILE CONTENT

“WIDGETS are the future of both mobile and online commerce,” observed XLR8 Mobile founder Perry Tell. “And the PROPAGANDA III WIDGET is just the latest of many innovations that are coming from XLR8 Mobile!”

“We couldn’t afford to spend a bunch of money to get folks to come to the PROPAGANDA III website, so we decided that we would bring the PROPAGANDA III website directly to the customer,” observes John Doffing, the founder of START MOBILE. “And the ONLY way to do this was with some pretty fancy technology created by XLR8 Mobile - there is nothing else in the world that even comes close!”

With a few lines of code, the PROPAGANDA III WIDGET can be added to any website in the world, and is powered by XLR8 Mobile’s “WapItUp!” mobile commerce platform. The WapItUp! platform delivers mobile content from ANY website to mobile phones ANYWHERE in the world, via a proprietary commerce system, featuring micro-site widget storefronts.

AMBER alert web widget

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 25th 2007

— AMBER Alert Widget —

The AMBER Alert Widget delivers real-time AMBER Alert news and images.
By installing the Website AMBER Alert widget on your website or blog,
you can help raise awareness of missing and exploited children. Every
visitor to your website gives an endangered child another chance of being
recognized and rescued. Information is aggregated in real-time from
the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children
(http://missingkids.com) and delivered to website viewers with the use
of a single line of javascript code pasted onto the website.

(the developers of AMBER alert widget are currently working on a Flash version as well. Stay tuned!)

AMBER alert widget has just gone MySpace and Friendster friendly!
This is important…the more places displaying this widget the better. Missing children have to be found!

If you go to get the widget you will see how serious these people are. They are planning a widget/app for every major blog platform and social profile site out there.

Desktop AMBER alert widget

There is a Yahoo! widgets AMBER alert widget as well. This is great for those who don’t have a blog but still want to be able to help locate missing children.

Desktop AMBER alert includes a download link and detailed installation instructions.

Widget Conference 2007 Speakers list

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 25th 2007

Chris Jones, Former CEO of JWT will be keynoting WidgetCon2007.

Other speakers include:

· Ed Anuff, CEO, WidgetBox

· David Card, VP and Senior Analyst, Jupiter Research

· Chris Cunningham, VP of Sales, Freewebs

· Andrew C. Frank, Analyst, Gartner

· Eyal Gever, CEO/co-founder, Gizmoz

· Martin Green, Vice President, Business, meebo

· Joe Heitzeberg, CEO/co-founder, Snapvine.com

· Charlene Li, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

· Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

· Robert Nelson, CEO, pYzam

· Kara Nortman, Vice President M&A, IAC

· Christian Oestlien, Business Product Manager, Google

· Shervin Pishevar, President, Freewebs

· Ivan Pope, CEO/co-founder, Sniperoo

· Hooman Radfar, Founder, Clearspring Technologies

· Steve Rubel, SVP, Edelman

· Thomas Ryan, Entrepreneur in Residence, Bessemer Venture Partners

· Andrew Stachler, Director of Interactive Marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures

· Dan Strauss, Vice President, FIM Labs, Fox Interactive Media

· Lance Tokuda, CEO, RockYou!

· Greg Tseng, CEO, Tagged

· Greg Verdino, Chief Strategy Officer, crayon

· Scott Witt, Vice President, Denuo + Droga5

Agenda Highlights

· The Village Marketer: Evolving Roles of Advertising in Communities

· Advertising 2.0: When will Marketing catch up to Media?

· The Birth of an Industry: Planning the Smart Growth of Widget Marketing

· Widget Marketing in the Media Mix: Organizing Agencies Around Emerging Platforms

· Widgets in the Web Ecosystem: Obstacles and Opportunities

· Many case studies, demos and examples

WidgetCon 2007

What are Widgets?

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 25th 2007

An excellent definition of widgets. What they are and where they are going.

Widgets are small applications that provide functionality and content online, distributed through a potentially limitless number of websites. They also represent an entirely new way of looking at advertising. Unlike almost all other online ads, widgets are uploaded onto sites (personal sites, profile pages, blogs) by consumers themselves. They are pulled by their audience, instead of pushed by marketers. And the publishers (largely personal publishers) who upload them are far more than affiliates: owing to these publishers’ personal dynamic and voice, they become advocates for the marketers whose widgets they help distribute. Widget Marketing is exciting because it allows advertisers to swim with the current, not against it. Now advertisers can be invited into conversations they might not otherwise have access to. It means a whole new way of thinking about marketing, but one that marketers will have to move towards if they want to continue connecting with their customers.

Thank You! www.freewebs.com

laughed my ass off….Hitler and gaming

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 22nd 2007

Hitler gets banned from Xbox live (For some reason the embed code doesn’t work…here is the link to this funny video)

Hitler gets banned from X-box live.

Truveo Video widgets (AOL video widgets)

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	June 20th 2007

Based on the news that I read at TechCrunch this morning. Truveo seems to be growing at a very respectable rate.

Video is crazy popular and everyone can’t get enough. This is why Truveo Video search is gaining in popularity.

Truveo has cool widgets. I’ve seen them in the past but they have grown up since the AOL acquisition.

Here is my favorite one…

The scrolling thumbnail widget.

You can also go for the single video version displayed below.

Single video widget

Flash programming is used on a majority of these widgets. This makes them certain social profile friendly.

There are many more widget options for Truveo video search. Including Yourminis, Widgetbox and AOL video search. Check out the Video Search application gallery for more details.