02.12.07
Posted in Developers, News, W3C, Web Standards, Widgets at 3:39 pm by Alice Pretchet
Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft
From the W3C News
“The Web Application Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0 Requirements. These design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side Web applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser environment. Read about Rich Web Clients.”
They have a really great graphic on the W3C web site showing the inner workings of a widget, which is really cool.
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01.04.07
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News, Software, Widgets at 3:57 am by Alice Pretchet
Groovr Launches Mobile Social Network
Groovr is another new mobile social network that has just launched.There service is based around text messaging: you get in to a place by texting. You can track where all the users are, allowing you to find out where all your friends are by texting a question mark to the same address of the user. You can also leave comments on places and text home to signal that you are back at your house. Even more, you can send photos to the service. Users have profile pages which aggregate all their check ins, photos and friends, and there is a forum to discuss everything that does not fit elsewhere. A couple of things it does not have yet is a widget to post your location and photos on your blog but even still a big thanks to Selena for the invite.
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12.07.06
Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, News, Widgets at 3:43 am by Alice Pretchet
If your like me or the other millions of wordpress bloggers then you probably want to take a look at Wordpress Widgets in order to provide your users with some great content and maybe allow them to easily add your information or feed by clicking on your widget. Whatever your fancy, check out the Wordpress Widgets page in order to take a look at whats out there and for developers or egg heads who just want to make a custom widget click back there on those links for more information on starting to make your own wordpress widgets.
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11.25.06
Posted in Developers, News, Widgets, Yahoo at 10:49 am by Alice Pretchet
Yahoo Widgets allows you and me to bring our desktop to life with fun stylish and useful widgets for keeping up with information we use daily. To start to use Yahoo widgets on your desktop, you first need to download the Yahoo Widget Engine after a quick install you can start to use any of the thousands of user subbmitted widgets some great widgets to start with would be the Yahoo search widget the Yahoo Notepad widget and for those using Yahoo for email then the Yahoo email checker is jsut what you need. For wannabe Yahoo widget developers Yahoo gives away the tools needed for creating widgets from your desktop and they also include special tools for intergrating content from programs like Photoshop.
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Posted in Blogs, Developers, Mobile, Mobile Devices, News, Widgets at 9:44 am by Alice Pretchet
New TypePad mobile app allows you or me to post photos to your TypePad blog and photo albums. You can download the app to a supported phone over the air by browing to “get.typepad.com” on your device. They’re currently supporting phones running Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian OS. Anyone know of a Wordpress feature like this please post in the comments the link. For a full list of widgets check out the typepad widgets homepage And for developers check out the typepad widget developers page for free tools and yipd
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