One common question among businesses considering Google gadgets or other widgets is basically this… “Why should I encourage people to use the functionality of my web site without actually visiting my website?” This question makes sense if someone for example is monetizing their site via adsense. If they display their content elsewhere like iGoogle or [...]
If you read this blog and you are a developer, you probably should let me know I often have work on neat projects. I have project work for… Open Social developers (javascript) Search Monkey (php / xslt) Facebook (php) Be part of some of the most popular and innovative applications on the web. I should [...]
Facebook has announced it’s new funding arm of fbFund. Through this fund Facebook will distribute 10 million dollars to developers of useful apps. There are a couple different ways these funds will go out but I will describe the 2 Million they are giving out in a competition. A quick run down of how this [...]
Facebook has opened up early registration for their developer event, f8. The f8 ’08 sessions cover three different tracks with four sessions per track. These are actually pretty interesting sounding sessions. Early bird registration is only 150 dollars, to learn more about sessions and registration costs visit the f8 registration page. This is a one [...]
During Widgetwebexpo, I noticed that there was alot of discussion about paid spread of widgets and almost none about organic spread of widgets. This caused me to change my presentation. There were companies represented there and widget teams that I felt could really benefit from some simple techniques of how to spread a gadget. So [...]
WidgetWebExpo is coming up, but don’t just go there because you want to see me, there are other people too :) … Look for speakers from comScore and Forrester Research, as well as from Nokia, Motorola, Gigya, Clearspring, Sprout (my Hawaiian neighbors), MediaForge and more. And let’s not forget widgets are like a start-up candyland, so naturally there are a [...]
Google Apps Engine Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it. A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took [...]
By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it. Keynote Speech The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser [...]
Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams. I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets. I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he [...]
The gadget/widget world is still young, and people are starting to “get it”, there is clearly a future. The core skill set of anyone wanting to be in gadgets is Javascript/Ajax, HTML, and PHP. In addition to those skills, micro design skills and designers able to minimize file sizes are useful as well, but what’s [...]
