Naked widget…yes that means no clothes

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Naked widget…yes that means no clothes

by Derek Anderson	Stumble this!	July 27th 2007

Naked Blog News

Many people would like to create simple widgets that deliver information on a topic that interests them. But sometimes it isn’t point blank obvious how to do this. It’s pretty simple using existing tools that are completely free and don’t even require a registration.

(widget has built in code so friends can copy your widget)
<p width="100%" align="center"><embed pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/yourminis/mini:rsscontainer" FlashVars="textcolor=2233602&color=12983041&appparam2=Natalie%20Portman%20Does%20Not%20Get%20%3Cb%3ENaked%3C%2Fb%3EqQqNatalie%2520Portman%2520Does%2520Not%2520Get%2520%253Cb%253ENaked%253C%252Fb%253EqQqPublic%2520%253Cb%253Enudity%2520naked%253C%252Fb%253E%2520in%2520my%2520backyard%2520big%2520boobs%2520blondeqQqPublic%2520%253Cb%253Enudity%2520naked%253C%252Fb%253E%2520in%2520my%2520backyard%2520big%2520boobs%2520blonde&height=319&width=240&appparam=http%3A%2F%2Fblogsearch%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fblogsearch%5Ffeeds%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dnudity%2Cnaked%26ie%3Dutf%2D8%26num%3D20%26output%3Drss&auth=&numberlines=5&subtext=0&inline=0&tooltips=0&uniqueID=id1185535891234&xheight=329&xwidth=250&mininame=rsscontainer&newwindow=0&buildnumber=1%2E5%2E6%2E13&title=naked%20widget&accountname=yourminis&uri=yourminis%2Fyourminis%2Fmini%3Arsscontainer&swfurl=%2Fwidget%5Frsscontainer%2Eswf&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="329"></embed><br /><a title="For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com" href="http://www.yourminis.com/index_minis.aspx?embeddedmini" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com" src="http://www.yourminis.com/images/poweredby.png"/></a></p> <p>

Here I have used Yourminis RSS widget to display an RSS feed from Google Blog Search. I went to Google Blog Search and typed in the keywords Nudity and Naked. The search returns all blog postings recently crawled by Google that include those terms. Then I just grabbed the RSS address and popped it into the RSS widget, tweaked some minor settings such as height/width and color. Then I grabbed the code and pasted it here for you to see.

This is about 5 minutes work. The longest part of this process is generally deciding what topics to search. My next attempt will be naked images or video. I can’t wait !

This story is designed to generate interest. Nudity is interesting but this is really about how to create a widget that delivers the information you want. I just picked nudity for the fun of it.

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4 Comments »

Hey, I guess we do think alike. Check out the comments of my post from yesterday. In response to Avatar, I did a quick Digg RSS Grazr widget that illustrates the same points as the one you made in this post.

Comment by Ming — 07-27-07 @ 2:17 pm