Archive for the “widgets”
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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 sees it […]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Affiliate programs often do not have many of the basic functionalities that I like to see that help me use them in gadgets.
I was surprised when I saw what Superpages was offering for their affiliate system.
SuperPages is a local search company and they have a simple and innovative system to distribute their services. It is […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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 […]
Posted in webdev, Web Slices, Facebook Applications, Open Social, widgets, google gadgets | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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 […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Those familiar with widgets and Google gadgets are aware of a problem specific to gadgets designed for a blog. Often blog gadgets are vertically orientated for use in sidebars. But when someone searches for a gadget, there is no indication of if a gadget is vertically or horizontally orientated. This is particularly true with Google […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
When marketers are planning gadgets I have seen over and over again the first fateful and almost universal mistake.
Marketing team gets together, has phone conference, drinks coffee, eats donuts, and then leaves meeting with a great plan and a clear vision of what they want…
“We need a gadget, and we need it to go viral”
Um, […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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 […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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, […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Webslices appears to be a great product but I am not able to give examples or explain it very well, mostly due to a surprisingly tight lipped Microsoft. I am not sure why they wouldn’t want to help developers understand their product more.
I requested an interview via a Microsoft contact, and even though I specifically […]
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