Posts Tagged with ‘widgets’

JS-Kit , which I tested and reviewed back in October, has just released another fantastic tool for Web publishers called Navigator . As far as I know this is the first lightweight service of its kind designed to increase traffic and retention while simplifying content management for publishers.
Navigator essentially distills opinion and user behavior into a set of flexible views. The net effect of this is to allow visitors to access content based on their personal preferences. The [...]

Up until this point Google Gadgets, the widgets or small applications that run in Google Desktop, were only available for versions of the Windows operating system. Although Mac OS X user have the Dashboard feature complete with a wide variety of downloadable widgets, Google's directory of more than 27,000 gadgets dwarfs the seemingly sparse collection of just over 3300 widgets in the Dashboard widget directory.
Now, however, Mac users will be able to use any of the Gadgets tomorrow, when Google [...]

“Utterz, be herd.” Personally, I find that phrase sounding like a bad pun that only a slow on the uptake city slicker could appreciate, and I mean bad. Would the program be any better? Utterz, in their own words, “is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that [...]

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place - the place where it gets mega rich, and where its presumed valuation starts to make a bitty-bit of sense.
That crucial component? Its user base. You know, all the college kids, the [...]

By now, you can pretty much call it a necessity for a social network to offer a platform for developers to create applications for. First was Facebook, and now MySpace, LinkedIn, Hi5, and several others have joined the fray.
Friendster is the latest addition, having announced that it is working on the Friendster Developer Program. This set of APIs will be just like other offerings, allowing developers to build applications that can be inserted into the profiles of Friendster users, [...]

Months after Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers and effectively claimed a near majority of headline space for a good portion of the year because of it, MySpace’s CEO Chris DeWolfe and his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, stood upon the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce their company’s own intentions to do the very same.
MySpace plans to make an official debut when it’s finished polishing its new platform, a point it will reach in “a couple of months.”
There’s [...]

I have been on a trend towards reviewing “new age” user engagement by rather traditional companies this weekend. So, along those lines I thought our readers would like to see how making this transition should be done. Nike+ is a nitro powered company site that is approaching 32 million members in its online community. The Nike+ site and features illustrate how Web 2.0, traditional companies and user/customers can be subtly and effectively integrated.
As far as coolness goes Nike+ makes [...]

Facebook is big. And it's getting bigger. There’s no denying that. Each and every day there are lots and lots of people joining the network, slowly but surely helping to increase its founder’s alleged net worth.
And lots of outsiders following the non-stop activity within the social network have for months now been feverishly looking for ways to, for lack of a better phrase, make a whole heckuva lot of money for themselves off the mini-boom happening within [...]

Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, and along with it come new features for its personalized homepage service, iGoogle.
Google Desktop has made it very easy for users to personalize their desktop with gadgets that show the latest news, weather forecasts, and various other information, but according to Google, people want to be able to also put those gadgets on their iGoogle homepages.
Now, with the new version of the Desktop software, Google has added this very feature [...]