Widgets for Web 2.0

Vote Now: 10 Tips for Mobile Web Design !

2010-01-12T12:19:00.001-08:00

How to create a mobile version of your website? Do you need to optimize your current website for mobile devices or design a completely new website? Do you need to worry about different platforms, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry, Linux, Brew, Android, and Nokia? What resolution, what screen size you should target, and what is this PPI anyway? How to design for maximum number of users and devices, in the least amount of time? In this session, mobile web usability expert and author of "Beginning Smartphone Web Development", Rajesh Lal will discuss ten pragmatic tips, for designing website for mobile devices.

Interested ? VOTE for it at Mix 10 (1. Add to ballot,2. Submit ballot)

http://tinyurl.com/10TipsMobileWeb

Silverlight Fun Badge (Widget)

2009-11-06T18:37:00.001-08:00

Click on the badge to start the fun !

Free Fun badge

Get the Fun Badge: Copy the following code to embed the Fun Badge in your page

<div id="funbadge" style="Width:120px;Height:120px;">
<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="source" value="http://silverlightfun.com/Samples/FunBadge.xap"/>
<param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
<param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" />
<param name="background" value="White" />
<param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
<param name="initParams" value="StartValue=0,BackgroundColor=White" />
</object>
<iframe style='visibility:hidden;height:0;width:0;border:0px'></iframe>
</div>
<a target="_blank" title="Get Free Fun Badge at http://silverlightfun.com" href="http://silverlightfun.com/2009/11/silverlight-fun-badge-is-here.html">Free Fun badge</a>

Ten Tips For Designing Mobile Widgets

2009-10-20T01:35:00.000-07:00

Presentation on designing Mobile Widgets at Maemo Summit, Amsterdam Netherlands, 11th October 2009

Ten Tips For Designing Mobile Widgets 2009 Maemo Summit Amsterdam

Silverlight Slideshow Widget

2009-02-26T02:57:00.000-08:00

Add Custom Parameters and you are done

value="SlideWidth=600,SlideHeight=500,Image1=Images/slide1.png,Image2=Images/Slide2.png,Image3=Images/Slide3.png,Image4=Images/Slide4.png"

No Silverlight

Different Size with Different Parameters

value="SlideWidth=400,SlideHeight=300,Image1=Images/i1.jpg,Image2=Images/i2.jpg,Image3=Images/i3.jpg,Image4=Images/i4.jpg,Image5=Images/i5.jpg,Image6=Images/i6.jpg"

No Silverlight

Download here

RSS / Atom Feed Widget

2008-09-11T12:29:00.000-07:00

A Feed Widget is one which takes an RSS / Atom feed and create a widget which can be embedded in any web page, blog and social profile.

We have a new Feed Widget which create code for a widget which can be embedded in any web page. All you need is your feed URL in the form of RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 format.

Here is how it looks like for a puzzle blog TrickofMind.com

Try it out here

Daily Puzzle Widget

2008-09-09T15:51:00.000-07:00

If you like puzzles, here are two more widgets for www.TrickofMind.com A website with 500 plus unique puzzles and trick questions.

Get Daily Tricks Widget

Copy & Paste the above code, this is what you will get

Get Top 5 Tricks Widget

Copy & Paste the above code

Beijing Olympics - Five Web Widgets & One Vista Gadget

2008-08-15T16:05:00.000-07:00

NBC Top News

Comcast Olympics Widget

Olympics Coverage NewsGator

SI.com Olympics 2008

WidgetBox Sidebar Gadget for All Olympics - Download Now

Hungry for Olympics ?

The Widget-Box Gadget just got widget-ized with Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Get latest updates, news, videos, slideshows from USATODAY, NBC, COMCAST, and more.

Check out the Gadget at http://widget-box.blogspot.com/

Download the Gadget here

USA Today Olympics

Add Rating Star Widget

2008-07-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

If you ever wanted to add Voting capabilities to your webpage http://AddRatings.com has a great widget which works on almost any web page.

With some great customization options, Give it a try !

The rating widget which you see in the bottom of this post is from http://addratings.com

Top Widgets Landscape

2008-05-31T22:17:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Web Widgets for your blog

2007-08-20T15:55:00.000-07:00

Whether you have a personal web page, a blog or a social profile here is a list of most popular web widgets.

Top 10 MUST HAVE Web Widgets for your online page.
(sorted alphabetically)

1. Bookmark This - http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription - Widget http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge - http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor - http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog - http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget - http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update - http://Twitter.com
8. Playlist Video Widget - http://Youtube.com
9. Web Poll Widget - http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening - http://iLike.com

1. Bookmark This

- http://Addthis.com

2. Email Subscription

- http://Feedburner.com

3. Picture Badge

- http://flickr.com/badge.gne

4. Recent Visitor

- http://MyBlogLog.com

5. Search Blog

- http://search.msn.com/siteowner

6. Snapshot widget

- http://Snap.com

7. Twitter Update

- http://Twitter.com

8. Video Playlist Widget

- Login to http://Youtube.com and then goto http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists to select the embed codefor the playlist

9. Web Poll Widget

- http://PollDaddy.com

10. What I am Listening

- http://iLike.com

Add your favorite here ...

Creating a Widget using Microsoft SilverLight and Popfly.Net

2007-08-19T10:29:00.000-07:00

Here is a series of videos provided by Popfly.net to create widgets using SilverLight

Video: PopFly 30 Second

Video: PopFly 3 Minute

Video: Popfly in 15 Minutes

What is a Web Widget ?

2007-08-11T13:37:00.000-07:00

A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.

A widget is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers.

Its a snippet of HTML code which is available from the the website which hosts the widget. you can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page.

Overview of a Web Widget

The snippet of code which makes a Widget can be a JavaScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.

What are Web widgets (Video Series )

2006-11-27T04:31:00.000-08:00

A series of videos by RobinGood

Part 1.

Part 2.

Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

What is Web 2.0

2006-10-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 is all about the following and more...

1. User Centric and User Oriented
2. Web Services, Web API's
3. Widgets, Gadgets, Mashup's
4. Blogs, Feeds, Wiki's, Tagging, Podcasting
5. Social profile
6. Social bookmarking
7. Client rich technologies like CSS, HTML, DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, XHTML, REST, SOAP

Here is the Web 2.0 Cloud image and a basic Video which somehow describes it in a visual way.

What is Web 2.0 Video

by flexbeta

Interested ? Checkout 10 more popular videos on Web 2.0 from industry gurus like Eric Schmidt, Tim O' Reilly, and a number of startup CEOs and executives. Also see, how to Create a Web 2.0-Style Logo