Check out the new, interactive Twilight Saga: New Moon widget
The Twilight Saga: New Moon widget allows readers to log in and register as Team Edward or Jacob and then see where other fans are in their area and how the nation is split between the two teams. It also has lots of downloads and a countdown so the fans know how long they have left to wait!
Magma (Mag.ma) is a Social Online Video Portal aiming to become The Guide for Online Video in the web. Think off it as Stumbleupon meets Digg that focuses on Online Videos, and you will get right idea. Go over here if you need a more detailed explanation.
So if the idea appeals to you, They are now open for business and they got widget you can put in your blog so you let everyone know of your contributions there and as a extra reminder of yourself of the site.
I must say i am disappointed with it. It is merely a Widget-badge for the site and i was expect that the widget would display more advance data if you clicked on of the video slots in it. Or that i would generate a lightbox that would allow it to play. It does neither. So what you see in the photo is as good as the real thing, Minus that it links to the Landing page of the video. The only redeeming qualities of it are that it is light, it got a good look and that there is no way but up for it, once they update it. So i hope Andrew Baron (Mag.ma CEO and RocketBoom creator) makes the widgets better and more worthwhile to have. And sets up a page to show them without having to log in too.
But the website itself its good and at least there is a official widget-badge for it, right?.
Serving as a extra from what it was known about Vizio new connected HDTV’s that will have Yahoo Widget Engine and OnDemand Video Services is that Vizio decided to not depend on Whatever Stream Widgets come via Yahoo TV Widgets or being forced to collaborate with Yahoo to get new widgets, like Verizon FIOS’s does (so far) with the Widget Bazaar. Vizio will have its own Widget Platform and will provide a SDK for developers interested in the new “Stream Widgets†space that comes with Widgets made for TV’s. This is thanks to the fact that the HDTV’s supports Adobe Flash. So it is only about Vizio showing developers the guidelines and toolkit to developers so widgets can be developed in the style Vizio wants them to be done. This way they will be swiftly included for use in the Vizio Connected HDTV’s.
CNET got a nice First Look video that touches on that and show the Two vizio models for release starting next month.
From the very same CNET, Erica Ogg makes her case on how Vizio offering is going to stand out with these Connected HDTV’s and it makes for good read too:
How Vizio will stand out among the sea of Web TVs
By now, most of Verizon FIOS’s got the option of the Widget Bazaar. But just in case you haven’t bothered to look at it or have taken the time to use them. I feel obliged to point you out a post by Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb wrote a step by step guide of the experience she had while setting it up. This may be a deciding factor for those still to get the option or still not convinced to use it to try them out.
Facebook and Twitter on TV: Hands-On with Verizon FiOS’s New Widgets
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