Posts Tagged ‘recommendations’

Yahoo Widget Position Restorer 1.5

July 12th, 2008

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Widget Position Restorer 1.5 is a very simple and single task focused software for those using the Yahoo Widget Engine and that are either Avid Gamers or update and try lots of software. something common to anyone using the Yahoo Widget Engine is that any time the resolution of your screen changes due to a game, a app or if you are a Live Mesh user for example, your Widgets lose their position and you have to rearrange them to your preferred positioning again.

No more, that is what this software will do for you. 

If you are tired of dragging your Yahoo Widgets back into order after changing screen resolution or the effects of your favorite game temporarily changing the screen resolution. Then Widget Position Restorer is for you.

Widget Position Restorer 1.5

via Ghacks

LIVESTRONG.COM health and fitness tip of the day Widget

June 19th, 2008

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LIVESTRONG.com (yes, with all caps because it is that breath taking ) is the new health portal with a social angle to comes from Lance Armstrong. the same guy who inspired millions with his story and also started a “socially conscious statement fashion” some years ago with the whole wrist bands for a cause phenomenon .and who’s pretty much only mistake so far has been getting involved with sheryl crow.

Well, he has  found a way to compensate from that severe flaw of judgement and stay cool and hip with us by launching this new site.

Livestrong is all about taking care of your health and meeting healthy people to elevate you into a new state of mind that will change your life. but it not ends there. now you can throw your new found LIVESTRONG health wisdom in the site by adding this Health and Fitness tip of the day widget to your blog and help others too!!!!.

There is no such thing as high Spread for this widget. but you can still get the embed code for the widget in the “old school” way by clicking the “Add this to your webpage” link and selecting “copy” and then add it wherever you can get away with adding a flash widget.

LIVESTRONG.com (remember, if it is not in all caps. is not healthy enough)

via StickiWidgets (hi ming)

*yes, i am aware of the alarming level of sarcasm in this post*

Loud3r: aggregated topical news channels

June 19th, 2008

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Not everyone can adjust or tolerate high information intakes. even i got burned by the amounts of information i get to consume every day. but it is certainly not for everyone. now that information is a commodity and is even live and everywhere thanks to blogs and microblogging. this causes a glut. too much information about a endless myriad of themes. solutions to filter it out are the things that can also be seen as a staple of 2008.

Loud3r (louder) is just that. a way to filter news  so you only get to read the news of a certain topic of your interest. they are launching with 25 channels with the main relevant themes. from cars to fashions, from politics to gossip. Loud3r is like a super ambitious and spread out Alltop combined with digg. think of every louder channel as mashed feed of news that is monitored by a person and optimized by a machine. what you get are newsbites of things from the topic that interest you.

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I have seen many and i mean many attempts like loud3r before, even from the humble start of the web. Loud3r looks to be a interesting approach that may work because we finally got the technology and info overload adjusted enough people to make it work.

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And it also got another good thing. it got widgets. a widget for every loud3r channel. the loud3r channels are powered by widgetbox and it counts with Widgetbox out of the box (widget) high spread sharing for 12 channels and 2 versions  of generic embed codes (flash/JS) and you can always customize the widget in its widgetbox page for 3 sizes and a dozen colors.  even then. don`t expect much from the widget. it is quite generic. but so is the idea behind loud3r and that is what they aim to in this case. so maybe that is the reason.

Still a great choice if you want to filter the noise.

LOUD3R

Loud3r Widgets

Strands recommendation engine to introduce a product recommendation widget for eCommerce

June 10th, 2008

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Strands is a recommendation engine for products, music, lifestyle and what not and have now set to released what they do into widgets starting with product recommendation for  eCommerce sites. so if you are shopping online and buy a gray shirt and widget contextually will change and recommend you a matching shoes or jeans that go with the style of what you have chosen. this is possible by having multi threading points of reference. like doing a search but the search engine comparing what you searched for  with what they got in the database and also be able to categorize reflecting on that catalogue  with tags, categories and labels while distinguish what is what.

At least that is the idea.

Strands is invite only but you can request an invitation:

Strands

Will update when the product has launched.

via Techcrunch

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