Google Gadgets & SEO

This is kinda a no brainer I will be there and I am relieved it fits my trail schedule. This event is developer oriented and costs 300-400 dollars depending when you register.
Get all the details at the Google I/O site.

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 [...]

Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK.
Except this is bigger. Way bigger.
I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give out concrete [...]

This is the second in a series of articles about the top widget and gadget platforms. I asked the same specific questions about each platforms usefulness to developers, advertisers, and search marketers. I will also highlight my personal experiences with each platform and provide my own review.
Dapper
From their “About page”…
“Dapper aims to make it easy [...]

This is the first in a series of articles about the top widget and gadget platforms. I asked the same specific questions about each platforms usefulness to developers, advertisers, and search marketers. I will also highlight my personal experiences with each platform and provide my own review.
Widgetbox
From their “about” page…
Widgetbox™ helps people express, [...]

I will be in Miami for the FOWA conference 28/29 Feb and a party Mar 1st.
It has a great lineup of speakers and workshops, but it is going on practically the same time as SMX West
I met some of these folk at the Widget Summit in San Francisco, and I have to warn [...]

Have you noticed that unless you are a multi-billion dollar corporation it is kinda tough to have a Google gadget ad account?
That has changed.
It was announced in the Google gadget API group that developers can now create accounts designed to explore the possibilities of Google gadget ads by creating trial campaigns . This is [...]

I did a little experimentation and you know what?
Unaltered Google gadgets work on all Open Social platforms.
And some big news…
Facebook now supports Open Social (more on this below, including screen shot)
But no matter who supports Open Social, they also do something else…
They support Google gadgets.
Any Google gadget (pretty much) will work in Open [...]

Wondering what to do with Open Social?
What I see as the biggest opportunity in Open Social is rather simple.
Regardless of what industry you are in, if you have a website that offers profile pages to your users, and have a large user base… then congrats, you can implement this idea.
The first major community in each [...]

If you are an industry leader in any sector, you likely have a large and varied web presence. Your gadget options have changed dramatically with the introduction of Open Social. Prior to Open Social, most brand gadget strategies would need to create several gadgets for the different facets of your business. With Open Social the [...]