Posts Tagged ‘widget’

HootSuite’s keyword Twitter column embed

December 17th, 2009

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I’m still not quite sure how to manage all the information that comes down the Twitter pipe…WOW!
HootSuite.com is making that task much, much easier!

You have to watch the video to get a good understanding of how HootSuite works and what it can do for you.

The Column Embed:
The feature we are focused on is the ability to embed into your blog, any “column” that you have created using HootSuite. Simplicity at its finest! All you need to do is create a column with your favorite keyword (up to three) or search criteria and then click on the “embed” button. This brings up the embed settings window which allows you to choose a title, dimensions, primary & background colors, refresh frequency and profanity filter. Once you have made your choices, you are then given the embed code to place in your site. (embed code is Flash)hootsuite_embed_settings

HootSuite is a relatively new service (1 year old approx.) and is winning many awards:

    HootSuite has won Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Award for Best Twitter App
    Shorty
    Canadian New Media Awards
    Groundswell Awards (selected as a finalist)

Here is what the embedded column looks like in WidgetsLab green.

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HootSuite.com

google web elements

June 12th, 2009

Simple copy and paste “elements” for your web pages. This small collection of Google widgets are simple and quick to add.


Here is an example of the YouTube News Element.
Its news from a specific source such as The New York Times in YouTube video format.


Here’s the Conversation Element. A simple chat widget for Google Friend Connect users.

There are eight Google Web Elements in all.
Check them out at www.google.com/webelements

WinecliQ widget with three choices

June 8th, 2009

Buy wine from a widget? …and be social about it. “Hey look everybody…I am buying this wine!”

WinecliQ is a social network centered around wine. Everybody likes wine…right?

You can add a winecliQ widget to all your spaces. Check it out!

social.winecliQ.com

Whats missing from Google Friend Connect

February 25th, 2009

Update: Thanks to Kevin for commenting and helping me to understand Google Friend Connect a bit better.
Sorry for my mini rant. I guess what happened is I clicked on 5 or 6 different avatars in the widget and each one happened to be from someone that never filled out their profile. There were no links to anything other than WidgetsLab. Seeing nothing, I wrongly assumed that I needed to “Friend” them to see their info.
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Are there sites where you have to become friends without seeing anything about the person beforehand?

The “Connect” seems to be missing.

google-sm.gifYes I can “invite” or “request” to be added as a “Friend” but I can’t simply click on a user’s avatar and go directly to their site. (or even a bio with a link to their site)

Now I understand the SPAM potential here…but if I discover SPAM I could simply block that “Friend” and move on. As it stands, I have no idea what each person is blogging or writing or even Stumbling about.

I have to become a “Friend” to someone I know absolutely nothing about (except what picture they chose for an avatar)

Thats it!

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I want everyone to submit a pic ( a link in the comments will be perfect) of one Avatar that they are curious about, I’ll use my intuitive skills to determine what type of “friend ” this entity will be and I will publish the results right in this post!

I say that if Google wants a successful social network…they need to work on the basics and worry about integrating YouTube later.

LiveBar: a way to socialize your blog or your site via Widgetization

September 18th, 2008

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LiveWorld is a company that does White Labeled Social Networks. you could say that it is like Ning but for companies. with the difference that the do everything for you. from the development to the management. that means they are not free and cost thousands of dollars a year to run.

They got a new thing to gain up agility called LiveBar. the livebar is a JavaScript Widget like Hab.la in the way it integrates to a blog in strip that reminds hidden until you call it up. the difference is that you are not running just a chat from IM service. in this case you are managing several community features from liveworld. things like contextual forums, contextual message boards and finally a contextual nanoblogging (twitter)  like feature you could also equate as a contextual commenting. these are contextual because they change depending the are of the blog or the site you are seeing. so if you load it up in this very post if i were using it. it would show its community features based on the info at hand.

The Livebar is not just that contextual integration. it also got a suite of widgets to use in the site or in the sidebar of the site homepage or blog that will integrate with the information provided by the Livebar.

Sounds interesting. something i wonder when we will see directed for consumers from someone else now that LiveWorld had showed this. the liveBar is of course costly because it is managed, customized and tailored for the client. a client managed version of this would be useful if cheap, because seeing a free version is going to be quite difficult and if it appears it will still cost you putting someone to manage it.

LiveBar is still a interesting option to explore for high profile Blog Networks or companies a way to socialize their sites without changing the entire site and because it can grow and change without many problems too because of their use of widgetization.

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via Techcrunch