Archive for the “google gadgets”
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The first big change is the reporting dashboard which is described by Google in a video targeting SMB owners:
Another change is that it looks like Google is playing with not allowing anyone but the business owner to change the listings, which if they follow through with will come as a great relief to business owners [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
It is not often that I start a company, I have only done it once: GetListed.org . I started it with David Mihm.
This blog post is somewhat long, but I feel it asks an important question.
Should developers get a stake in the company that they helped create?
We are a good crew, me and David. He [...]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
When you promote your Google gadget, you may also be unintentionally promoting your competitors gadgets as well.
Google wants to provide suggestions to their users of other gadgets they might enjoy. The problem this may cause for you is that those “other” gadgets may just well be your competitors. Here is a way to keep Google [...]
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Hulu Has begun integrating show specific widgets into their navigation. The Hulu video widget is quite nice and well made, though there were a couple of hiccups when it first came out. Each show description page now has a Widget tab, as shown below on the Daily show Hulu page:
Hulu is offering two types of [...]
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Widgetbox has an enormous gallery of user made widgets. There are around 150,000 different widgets and they are about to achieve a benchmark in their widget distribution: 10 billion widgets served over 3 and a half million different domains.
Your widget will be removed from this gallery soon if it is not “ad compliant”.
Part of the [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
With mentions in Mashable and SearchEngineLand this Digg like gadget is off to a very good start. The What’s Popular gadget shows stories, videos and images that are popular. You can submit your own stuff to the gadget and these things can be voted on.
What’s Popular? How about What’s Probable?
There are some notable things about [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
It is really easy to watch the new TV shows and movies that are now available on Youtube without those pesky ads.
Simply embed them! Here is the full episode of new CBS show Harper’s Island with no ads…
I doubt that content losing their ads while embedded is intentional, and is likely breaking an agreement with [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
This lesson will surely give you an upper hand in having your Google gadgets be seen by more people.
It explores the best practices of how to effectively describe and spread your Google gadgets via the underused method of complete ModulePrefs.
Guide to ModulePrefs
What are ModulePrefs?
ModulePrefs are the “metadata” of a Google gadget.
On a web page you define [...]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The use of AJAX in the Google gadget directory can confuse the heck out of alot of users. When you add a gadget from the directory, it does not take you back to your home page so you can see the gadget in action, it just used to say “added”. and left you on the [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Here is a gadget that displays the latest videos from Matt Cutts and the Google Webmaster Help team. Whenever they put new videos up they will be displayed automatically in gadget.
This pulls the latest videos from The Google webmaster help YouTube channel which can be found here. (if you can’t see gadget in feed then [...]
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