Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Quintura has Kid friendly search widget too

January 23rd, 2008
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The Quintura search widget (currently in the sidebar) offers your readers a completely different way to search. Utilizing the ‘Tag Cloud’ to display search terms that are relevant to the query you entered into the search bar.
Hover over the text to activate the search term. The first three results will be displayed below the search window. There are also a smattering of Favicons displayed in the cloud to aid in visual recognition of your search query.

Kid friendly
There is also a kid friendly version of the widget that filters results for the younger crowd. It’s as easy to put on your blog as the original but delivers an extra level of safety for your readers.


The code
This is a JavaScript widget. It is width and height adjustable to fit into your blog.

If you feel adventurous…you can dig into the code a bit and adjust the color of the background as well as the default search term. This is particularly cool for promoting themes or contests. You can even use this feature to push readers to information you think they would find useful.

The widget is Free to use and there is no registration necessary.

Where do I get it?

Kid friendly widget
kids.quintura.com

Original widget
Quintura.com

Quintura named “Alternative Search of the Year” for 2007

WidgetBucks announces Yieldsense

January 23rd, 2008

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Wow!
Based upon recent successes (1 billion ads served in 83 days= $1 mil at 1/2 penny per ad) Widgetbucks has formed what they call the “WidgetBucks Customer Council”.

This group is used as a way interpret customer response to new ideas.

One of the new ideas they are working on is called YieldSense.

YieldSense is a contextual PPC widget designed to deliver the highest yield ads based upon previous performance.

The experts say it more eloquently:

One example of new features and technology being tested by the WBCC is YieldSense(TM), a contextual, pay-per-click (PPC) ad widget that displays the highest yielding product categories and ad creative based on a revenue score that is automatically generated from past performance. We anticipate YieldSense (and specific details about it) to be more widely available in February.

What does this mean?
Does this mean that a WidgetBucks widget placed on your blog will deliver the most relevant ad to the individual viewing your page? Or does it mean that the ad served is the most popular among other like minded surfers?

I also think that they are trying to serve up the most profitable ad (profitable for the publisher) and I see this as maybe not sitting well with advertisers. It would be the same as Google Adsense telling everyone what the most expensive keywords (Adwords) are and then delivering them to everyones blog or website.
This would result in higher advertising prices and a drop in publisher payouts. A win win for WidgetBucks…until advertisers pull out.

Interesting!

Read more at WidgetBucks blog:
WidgetBucks Creates Customer Council

Mashable’s take on this:
http://mashable.com/2008/01/16/widgetbucks-yieldsense/

Spurs team widget

November 28th, 2007

Spurs fans now have a widget

San Antonio Spurs have partnered with Clearspring to bring you the ‘Spurs Team Widget’

With this widget you can watch news and highlight videos, catch scores and current standings and even buy tickets. Clearspring creates awesome widgets with a whole host of ‘One Click’ add options to your favorite blog or social profile pages. I especially like that fact that the widget is viral and you can grab the embed code right from the widget itself.

Myspace users who are Spurs fans will be happy too. The Spurs widget works there as well.

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Get the Spurs Team Widget now

flauntR – cool Flex based widgets for photos

November 23rd, 2007

Users can access and edit images right from your blog

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flauntR.com
offers a host of cool photo editing tools. I’m am not a master photo editor, but I do know a quality, simple to use photo editor when I see one.
flauntR comes with thousands of possibilities for your photo editing needs. Image effects, frames, color options and even flickr integration.

Register with flauntR for even more options, including storage with flauntR, download and professional printing options.

Widgets

click above to test widget

flauntR also has an array of photo widgets. Three types (Lightbox, Iframe and Linkbacks These widgets are not for displaying images. They are to allow your readers to edit images. Import them, export them, crop them, frame them and just about anything else you can imagine.
Now you are probably asking why your readers would want to edit images while reading your blog. This is a similar question that I asked myself.

Here’s the answer.
You can set up one of the flauntR widgets to load with specific images that are located on your site. This would then allow your readers to participate in your “New Photo Contest”. Now you are asking “why do I want to have a photo contest?”

Another answer.
Contests seem to be all the rage on blogs these days. These contests are designed to bring in new readers and potential RSS subscribers, in the hopes of boosting traffic and ultimately improve revenue.

For example:

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thethinkingblog.com is holding a contest from now until December 20th (winner will be announced Dec. 25th) Up for grabs is a really cool and rugged Ruff laptop.
Now I realize that this contest is not in any way photo related, but the contest idea does have merit…but I really want to win that RUFF laptop.
Hey, at least I’m honest about it.

At any rate. The resources at flauntR are free to use and I believe that the widgets (at least some of them) if used properly, could benefit your blog immensely.

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