Google Gadgets & SEO

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here is a widget for the conference:

Or use the iPhone version with video streaming of the event. Find out more at the conference blog
Also of note, my comments are turned back on!

The videos are coming out as are the slides for the Google I/O sessions. It is pretty cool that they are making some of the full presentations available.
I was going to be discussing Android today, but instead you can just watch the sessions themselves. Here is “An Introduction to Android” to get you started.

To see [...]

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 few venture [...]

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 off” in [...]