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Gigya Releases Six Wildfire Interface New Themes And Announces Theme Design Contest

August 22nd, 2008

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The Wildfire Interface is how gigya calls its High Spread Sharing module. just like clearspring calls it launchpad and musestorm calls it Intelligent Delivery, etc. High Spread Sharing as i have said before is:

a high spread sharing module allows a widget to be quickly spread around without the need of copy and paste by sharing its embed code into several services  from a  selection panel with Quick Install Link that calls the specific install code and action for the service where the widget is being shared to.

In gigya case that would be its Wildfire Interface panel. they have now released six new themes for it:

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You can also customize your theme on your own. or as they put it “pimp your widget” out:

Those are great and need advances. because while at one point in time, gigya had the best High Spread Sharing module around. the updates from pretty much everyone in the Widget Space has now reached them up or surpassed them. more notably in the case of Clearspring as a example of the best High Spread Sharing module right now. Gigya may need also update the module itself.

But that is not all the news. you can also enter a contest to win a iphone or a shot to get your work forever featured (forever may be relative). the only thing you need to do is design a Wildfire Interface Theme.

Gigya got a Full Press Release on it as follows for full details:

PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – August 11, 2008) –

News Facts

--  Gigya, the largest widget distribution network, today announced the
    release of six new design themes for its Wildfire widget distribution user
    interface.
--  Now, in addition to being able to easily customize their own UI,
    publishers can also choose to quickly implement one of six predesigned
    themes.
--  These six designs can be accessed by logging in to a free Gigya
    account, visiting the API page of the Gigya website, selecting "standard"
    or "advanced" set-up and then selecting one of the themes from the drop-
    down menu.
--  In addition to the design themes, the new Wildfire design elements
    include: animated transitions between screens, mouse-over tool tips which
    display on social network icons when no social network title is displayed,
    new button designs with larger buttons, and a new toolbar design.
--  Today, Gigya also announced a theme design contest, giving publishers,
    developers or anyone interested in participating, the opportunity to design
    their own Wildfire theme and enter it in the competition. The best design,
    as selected by Gigya and the Wildfire user community, will be awarded an
    iPhone. See below for more information.
    

Situation Analysis

--  To extend their reach, publishers and content creators look for easy
    ways to get their content distributed across the social web. In the past,
    readers would have to locate the embed codes and figure out how to install
    them into their favorite social network.
--  Gigya's Wildfire technology handles this process for the user with
    just one click, increasing a publisher's success rate for getting content
    installed to the more than 50 social platforms including MySpace, Facebook,
    and other top destination across the web where users want to consume it.
    

How Wildfire Works

--  Wildfire, a free technology, is the most popular widget sharing
    platform on the Web, reaching more than 150 million unique widget users
    each month, and successfully installing more than 500,000 widgets per day
    across the social web.
--  With a completely customizable interface and thirty-minute or less
    implementation, Wildfire is easy to integrate within any web page or
    widget.
--  Wildfire also provides real-time reporting on how and where widgets
    are used in addition to standard metrics.
--  Through Wildfire, publishers can easily tag an unlimited number of
    interactions with widgets.
--  Wildfire's reporting is intuitive and can be accessed through an easy-
    to-use web-based reporting dashboard, exported to Excel, or pulled into an
    existing system through Gigya's API.
    

Wildfire Design-A-Skin Contest

--  Today, Gigya announced a contest giving publishers, developers or
    anyone interested in participating, the chance to design their own Wildfire
    theme and enter it for a chance to win an iPhone.
--  Publishers and developers have until September 12th to send the
    exported theme code and screenshot (jpeg or gif) of the design along with
    the name and contact information of the designer via email to laura@gigya-
    inc.com with the subject line "Wildfire Contest."
--  Gigya will choose and then announce the top ten designs on September
    15th. The online community will then vote for their favorite design from
    the top 10.
--  The winning designer will receive a new iPhone and the top 10 designs
    will be featured on Gigya's site.
--  For free access to the Wildfire API, please sign up for an account at
    www.gigya.com, 
    

For the page where all this originates, just go here:

Gigya Releases Six New Themes for Its Wildfire Interface

*This was submitted and facilitated by Gigya, submit your news to Widgets Lab*

Win a trip to San Diego Comicon with the Quarantine movie widget

May 5th, 2008

Quarantine is upcoming Sony Picutres movie to be released until October 17th. The movie follows a Cloverfield-like format, if you have seen cloverfiled you will know that to expect.

The movie is still a long way off to be rleased but that don`t means you cannot have fun thanks to it already. they are offering up a Flash Widget with high spread provided by WidgetBox so you can pretty much place it everywhere.

That Widget also invites you to register for a chance to win a trip to the San Diego Comicon Internationl, the biggiest Comic Book convertion and now also a Geek Media Fest:

One Grand Prize consisting of a trip for two to Comic-Con International including:

  • Roundtrip coach airfare to San Diego, California
  • Three night standard single room, double occupancy, hotel accommodations
  • Two 4 day memberships to Comic-Con International in 2008 or 2009
  • $300.00 check for spending money

I wish i could go myself but only those in the usa can enter, so if you can enter,have at it.

All the details can be obtained directly from the widget:

Quarantine Move

*This Widget was submitted directly to Widgets Lab, Submit yours now.

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MyVox: Voice Enabled Widgets

March 19th, 2008

MyVox

MyVox is a service where you can turn any voice message into recorded message you can use with a Widget, be it a Desktop Widget or Web Widget.

They recently have been trying out a MyVox API and generating a gallery where all voice enabled widgets using that API will be placed. right now there are just a few but adding voice recorded message to widgets you can put in your blog or in your desktop does seems like a enticing idea even if just an case by case option.

Some of the Widgets you can checkout right now are:

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1.- Phone Mic

This is a Yahoo Widget that will allow you to record something to your computer incase you don´t have microphone around, the widget will generate a .wav file for you to use. no reason to stop from recording something even if you are on the go.

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2.-VoxPix SlideShows

While it is said that picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes the picture got a story by it itself or there is certain context not displayed in the photo, so with this app, you can generate a Slideshow that also has recording describing the events, the context or the story of the picture being displayed in them.

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3.-voiceBLOG

A easy way to AudioBlog, leaving no excuses for you to not try it if you got a AudioBlog, this App, not only allows you to record in a comfortable way but does most of the work for you, no need to upload the files to the Internet or generate a player for that file, just record something and harvest those playback widget to put in your post and that is it. there is no easier way that this. with this even your grandmother can have a audioblog.

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4.-RockYou! Voice Memo

Want to give your Visitors the options to give you a shout, in a literal way?. well now you can, just add the RockYou! widget and they will be able to leave you Audio Comments so you can make it a once a post thing or place voice guestbook in your blog sidebar.

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5.-VoiceMAP notes

Planing a trip, event or anything that requires you of illustrating your point in a map?, well now you can explain directly inside the map with recorded messages.

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6.-vTAG

For those times when you just need a stand alone single audio player in your blog from something you recorded. well this is the way to do it, just record it and pick up your widget.

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7.-WEMIX

Want to be a karaoke star?, want to check out how a remix of a song would sound your voice?. well now you can, you only need this widget to add your recorded voice to a Song have currently in place to mix in WeMix.

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8.-iPhone Voice Memo

Got an iphone?, want to put it to good use for a change?, well now it can be a way for you do voice notes that are uploaded directly online for you use later.

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9.-Blabber

Love classic puns?, want to take it the next level?, take it to the web!. just because!. now you can take the good old trick of the Picture that talks into widget. not that you should do so. but now you know you can if you want to.

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- MyVox Apps Gallery -

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If you still don´t find the right voce enable widget but you think you are more than able to do one in your own with MyVox API, then they want you to do so, and can even encourage you with a content where the price is 25,000 dollars for the best MyVox API Widget.

MyVoxapi contest                                 

Win $25,000.00

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Tapatap contest widgets

November 11th, 2007

Create a contest and it comes with a widget

More accurately it comes with a Flash embed so you can promote it easily on your Myspace profile. It also works on Friendster, Blogger, hi5 etc…

Basically you can create a ‘Hot or Not’ photo contests on the Tapatap.com website.

People are joining Tapatap to create contests amongst friends (e.g. Who’s the hottest girl in our dorm?), rate crazy pictures from last night’s party, and compete against the community to be the best Tapper!

It appears as though you can win prizes by participating in these contests. Some contests are created with $$ prizes put up by the contest creators. Tapatap also rewards people that participate on their contests. By voting, creating contests and adding photos into contests with prizes, you are eligible to win prizes. Up for grabs are prizes such as Amazon.com gift certificates as well as cash prizes from $25 up to $250 per month.

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Create, vote and upload to have fun and win!
Tapatap.com

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