Archive for the “webdev”
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Terms like semantic web, the social graph, and machine readable link relations are things that people in SEO and marketing typically sorta know about but don’t have a clear grasp on. I want to quickly explain a couple of terms and concepts that are part of the social future of the web and how link [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
What are gadget enabled objects? They are objects that can be placed in rooms that have functions, like video or clocks that actually work.
To see some gadget objects from the catalog go here….
To make these, you have to be a content developer (but it will open up to everyone eventually).
The Object Editor
The object editor is [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Lively is Google’s new 3D virtual world with social aspects.
Here is what a room looks like embedded on a page…
To try Lively out for yourself, just enter the above room (you will be asked to login with Google), and look around.
Or go straight to Lively.com
Note: The login window from Lively gadgets do not have a [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The above video of Taniya Nayak is just one of several and is from the Tv page of her website. Or see her video from a local news site.
On HGTV there are multible episodes with her but they can’t be found via a video search.
I feel bad to pick on HGTV, but I had to [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
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 day event [...]
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Danny Sullivan wrote an article about putting humans back into search results. He mentioned how search engines are already using human behaviors in ranking, but I want specifically talk about the latest four places Google uses human factors, and introduce the next place I feel they will do so (gadgets in results).
As a reference, Google [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Facebook Applications, Google I/O, How to make Google gadgets, Open Social, google, google gadgets, google guidelines, iGoogle, webdev, widgets, widgetwebexpo | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Sprout is based as I am in Hawaii. But wherever you happen to live, Sprout is a very good widget maker.
Their widget building tool allows you to create professional looking widgets without knowing Flash or other technologies, and even provides quick templates that get you started remarkably quickly. In fact one of their templates is [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
LinkedIn has been pretty specific about their intentions for Open Social. They plan to have useful, business orientated widgets only. At Google I/O they also mentioned they would be revenue sharing in a “unique” way. Hmmm.
To see what they said (and what all the other social networks said) about their Open Social implementations you can [...]
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and everything is sparkle-ly.
Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and curious [...]
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