Tag: WIDGET

With the popularity and continued growth in the world of widgets, Niall Kennedy has launched a successor to last year's popular Widgets Live! conference, Widget Summit 2007. The Widget Summit will be held in San Francisco October 15-16th. This year, coined The Year of the Widget by Newsweek, will see this two day conference covering both the product and the development sides of the widget. Widget ...

Get ready for the newest widget platform on the market, Joost. They have just rolled out their API and opened things up for developers to make masterpieces that integrate with the P2P TV client application. The launch of Joost's latest version 0.12.0 is a little overshadowed by the API introduction, which is the icing on Joost's cake. The somewhat hush hush announcement in the product forums of ...

If you're creating websites, you'll probably know about Google Analytics, the once-expensive now-free web statistics service from the big G. Whilst you could, of course, log in to Google Analytics via the Analytics (recently-upgraded) website, it might seem like overkill to go to the hassle of logging in just to check visitor numbers. Thankfully, Mac users can rejoice because Dashalytics allows ...

Life without feeds would be one of sifting through thousands of endless stories and visiting website after website for content. Thanks to RSS, our lives have been ever so simplified. OPML has been the typical approach to combining all RSS feeds into a single file that can be exported and imported into any feed reader. Then along comes RSS Mixer. This online tool lets users combine all favorite ...

Intel is getting ready to debut a closed beta this month of their new mashup tool accessible to non programmers. The new MashMaker was spotted at the SIGMOD conference in June in a presentation that was prepared by Intel and Yahoo Research. The gist of it was the creation of a tool that made it easy to create mashups from many different sources. Intel's MashMaker will be a web based tool that ...

mySay lets friends stay in touch with friends by recording voice updates and dispatching them to friends. The update service works by dialing up a special mySay phone number and saying what you're up to, dropping your latest news, making a statement, or whatever you like. Don't want to use your own voice? Upload an mp3 or have the mySay robots say it for you. Friends can then call in to check ...

We have covered Jangl in the past, their unique service enables users to communicate with anyone through phone lines, without revealing phone numbers. Jangl widgets came out a short while ago, and now the team has announced a partnership with Tagged, a social network that has been quickly been climbing the ranks and currently has over 40 million members. So needless to say, now members of this ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Google_Talk_pops_out_of_gadget_land_and_gets_a_few_new_features'; Google has updated the Google Talk Gadget with a few new features today including a Pop out feature, a button for websites, Firefox sidebar integration, and video and image displays. These significant enhancements add a lot to the way the web is heading with widgets, gadgets and keeping ...

Just when you thought there were enough tools and talk about social networks, more tools for those crazy social networkers have been unleashed. YouCams embeds video, voice and text chatting with a flash file format. The full featured video format allows users to embed and watch YouTube videos with friends, share links with other users, create and move through a series of public and private rooms, ...

Back in December Apple released a beta version of Dashcode, a programming environment which makes it easy to develop OS X Dashboard widgets. The problem with Dashcode is that there is not much information on how to use it available on the internet. Even the documentation that comes with Dashcode provides only the most basic information and does not currently link back to Dashboard documentation. ...

All right, I'll own up to it right away. I'm a Woot! nut. I check out their deal of the day before I even look at my email in the morning. I daresay, I've even been known to see what the day's Woot! is before grabbing my morning cuppa Joe. I know I'm not alone in my love of Woot! and that some folks even stay up late into the night compulsively refreshing their browser to get the jump on other ...

If you wanted a widget that could connect all of your friends regardless of creed their specific network such as MySpace, Facebook, their own site, etc., there is a new open source social networking site that lets you do that. Explode lets you connect all your friends from disparate social networks together. You do this by using a search term or interest tag to find others who share your ...

Outlook on the Desktop is a free application built on .Net by Michael Scriv. It allows you to pick any one of the main Outlook views (Inbox, Calendar, Tasks, etc), and display it directly on your desktop. The display is shown in a mildly opaque way, so that you can still see your desktop wallpaper (or in my case, icons) beneath the Outlook display. However, the coolest part of this utility is the ...

I love me a good widget/gadget as much as the next guy. But I'm a bit dubious of widgets for PDAs or mobile phones. The beauty of a widget is that it lets you run multiple little processes in little windows, letting you do some word processing in a main window while quickly keeping tabs on breaking news, weather, or train schedules on the side. But a PDA screen is essentially a little window. ...

GoodWidgets allows users to upload images from a desktop, or from popular photo sites like Flickr and Photobucket, while using widgets to display photos in a unique animated presentation on a social network or webpage. There are seven unique presentation widgets to choose from, including a slider to slides between images, a page by page flip book, and morphing between images. You can change ...