Archive for January, 2010

Viral Content Widget from BuzzFeed

January 8th, 2010


BuzzFeed.com tracks everything thats currently HOT on the Internet and everything that’s about to become HOT!

They have a customizable JavaScript widget (seen below) that can be configured to show a number of the latest topics. Custom colors and sizes with image size choices as well.
WordPress Plugin and PHP/PERL scripts are also available.

There’s even a static image badge if you want to promote BuzzFeed. (hmmm…doesn’t static mean non-changing? This image changes.)

BuzzFeed Tracks the Web’s Obsessions in Real Time.

We feature the kind of things you’d want to pass along to your friends: an outrageous video that’s about to go viral, an obscure subculture breaking into the mainstream, a juicy bit of gossip that everyone at the office will be talking about tomorrow, or an ordinary guy having his glorious 15-minutes of fame. And when you read BuzzFeed, you’ll always know the movies, music, and products that are on the rise and worth your time.

…and BuzzFeed wouldn’t forget all of those that don’t have websites to paste widgets into. So they have created a mountain of options for those of us that simply don’t want the hassle of maintaining a website.

# Apple Dashboard
# Yahoo Desktop
# NetVibes
# iGoogle
# PageFlakes

Whats curiously missing is a BuzzFeed app for the iPhone. You can always point your mobile browser to http://m.buzzfeed.com/ but I’, sure its just not as good as an actual BuzzFeed app could be.

Google adds chat to Translator toolkit

January 7th, 2010

Knowing that collaboration is a very important aspect to development of any kind, Google has added chat functionality to the Google Translator Toolkit.

Wonder if they considered Wave integration?

Read the full story at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/chat-on-translator-toolkit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Oggchat offers FREE website chat integrated with gmail

January 5th, 2010


Oggchat is a “live” website chat solution that integrates with Google Talk and Gmail.

Simply put. You sign up for an account (Free and Fee based) and set some parameters. Then you paste the Oggchat code into your website and start offering realtime solutions to your customers.

I suspect one drawback would be that Oggchat integration is only available through Google Talk/gmail. So any website organization that isn’t currently using Google will need to create a Google account in order to utilize the Oggchat service. (I am not 100% sure on this as I have not signed up for the service and there is no indication of integration with other IM clients.)

Oggchat says:

OggChat is unique among live chat solutions. It incorporates a customizable client chat window for your website but routes all chat requests to your operators’ GMail accounts. No additional client software is required and you can chat right from GMail or from your Google Talk client.

I can say this though…Gmail does offer awesome features for small business/blog writers. Creating a Google account in order to utilize Oggchat couldn’t hurt.

Oggchat.com

fmylife.com Mac OS X Dashboard Widget

January 4th, 2010


fmylife.com is a place where users can leave brief personal stories that end in some sort of embarrassment and are finished with FML. The acronym FML has gained popularity outside of fmylife.com and a developer community has delivered on the fmylife API.

Supposedly (according to TechCrunch) fmylife is now demanding a 50% share in any revenues generated using their API. Understandable…however, they should have had this API revenue share in place before releasing to the dev community.

There are various Apps for smartphones that may or may not disappear based on these revenue demands. Free apps/widgets remain untouched.

Here is the Mac OS X FML widget

Read the latest from fmylife.com with this widget! The widget automatically loads the most recent post, and can be refreshed. You can also visit the site to view comments or comment on the latest post.

You can download the fmylife.com Mac OS X Dashboard Widget here.

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