I may not be the best one to follow in this regard, since I have a fondness for widgets and plugins (yes, Brent, I know my page is really loading slowly), but I think the Google chatback applet is a great idea. Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch seems less than impressed, and wonders why anyone would [...]
Not content with helping to destabilize the traditional record business, Radiohead has whipped up a widget featuring some of their videos, music and news (using Clearspring’s widget-making service). I’ve embedded it below, and you can click on the menu and get your own. According to Clearspring, almost 1,500 people have downloaded it. In other Radiohead [...]
Let me just say I’m glad to see Yahoo moving into the Web 2.0 social-media area, integrating its services with blogs through the Yahoo Shortcuts service/widget for Wordpress — and I’m a huge fan of Alex King, the Wordpress plugin genius who designed the feature (and also did the wonderful Share This plugin) — but [...]
Wow. That’s all I can say. Inside Facebook says that TripAdvisor has bought the “Where I’ve Been” app for Facebook for a massive $3-million — which works out to about $1.30 for every one of the widget’s 2.3 million users (and I use that term loosely). As the site notes, that’s about 30 times what [...]
It may sound like a new way to torment your friends using Facebook, but a widget that Vancouver-based DabbleDB just launched also strikes me as an interesting way of managing different tasks or parts of a project among a group of Facebook users. Not only can you create tasks and to-do lists for yourself, but [...]