Tag Archives: Widgets

Time For A Change On Meydad.com

One of my new year resolutions was to refresh the design of this blog with a new theme. I am happy that it took me less than a month to complete it and get it off my task list. I … Continue reading

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Discovering Navigaya – An Innovative Start Page

I just discovered Navigaya and I like it a lot. What is it? Well, if you read their about page you will find something like “an innovative open multimedia platform”. But to me it is hybrid between the Mac widgets … Continue reading

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Gizmoz re-launches

Just tried out the new Gizmoz that was re-launched today with a nice pinky skin and a new logo. Their technology is pretty cool and the animated avatars that you can create & share are sweet. It was a bit … Continue reading

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Myspace vs. Facebook F8

Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital) posted a great one on the different approaches Myspace and Facebook have related to Widgets and their role in the new social economy. Too bad both environments still disallow a great utility such as Snap Shots … Continue reading

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Cool Visualization Mashup : Digg Exposed = Digg + Snap Shots

Last week Hart Woolery a lead developer at YourMinis created a new mashup using Snap Shots & Digg’s new API and submitted it to Digg API Visualization Contest. Jason who works with me at Snap posted the story on the … Continue reading

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Twitter + Virtual Earth Mashup using Microsoft Popfly

Just came accorss this mashup on John Montgomery’s blog. We have seen similar mashups created using Google Maps but this one demonstrates some of Popfly capabilities. I wish there were settings to define initial load state (location, timeframe of twitter … Continue reading

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Interesting Widget Statistics

Lijit is a a blog search engine that uses people, content and connections to influence on relevance of results. They used data their spiders collect when visited over 8000 blogs to analyze the Widgetsphere and released thier findings a few days ago. … Continue reading

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