Wikio - Widget

Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV (Planet Intertwingly)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT

... players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack branded The Widget Channel. What new opportunities are available inside the Widget Channel platform? When is the right time to implement?

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Explore : DVD Players and Recorders, HDTVs, TiVo, TVs and HDTVs

Intel and Yahoo: Widget Channel Strategy (Parks Associates)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Eric Kim from Intel's Digital Home Group today unveiled an application framework called the Widget Channel . It will bring structured Internet applications and content to the television, using widgets. The solution uses Yahoo's Widget Engine and core libraries, and brings many services to the TV, including content from Blockbuster, Disney-ABC, CBS Interactive, Cinequest, Joost,...

Source : Parks Associates (subscribe)

Explore : Debentures and Loans, Home Group, Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

associating widgets with mimetypes (aseigo)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:14:00 GMT

One of the neat features in Plasma is the ability to associated widgets with mimetypes. To associate a widget with a mimetype, you add a X-Plasma-DropMimeTypes key to the .desktop file for the widget. For instance, the picture frame widget has this in its .desktop file: X-Plasma-DropMimeTypes=image/jpeg,image/png When I drop an image file onto the desktop, I get asked...

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MacUpdate: Hong Kong Weather 1.8 - Hong Kong weather widget. (Free) (mac.ro)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:01:27 GMT

Hong Kong Weather 1.8 Hong Kong Weather is a widget that fetches Hong Kong local weather through local observatory. The Temperature, forecast and weather warning is considerably more accurate than the Weather widget provided by Apple. Hong Kong Weather displays Traditional Chinese or English location name. Please refer to our website to see more screenshots and detail. More information...

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Explore : Hong Kong

CNET vs. Widgetbox: Are Widgets Running Out of Steam? (Widget Blog - Sexy Widget)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:40:31 GMT

If you're into widgets, I recommend taking some time and going through these two posts: CNET's discussion of the maturing of the widget space, and Widgetbox's CEO Will Price's response. The CNET article seems to use the terms "widgets" and...

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Explore : CNET Networks

Flickr embeddable slideshow widget (D' Technology Weblog)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:24 GMT

Flickr launched a new and improved fullscreen “slideshow”, which’s available from every page where you see a group of photos on Flickr: “photostream pages, sets, tag pages, group pools and search results”. The main improvements is that you can watch videos as they appear in a slideshow. When a video in a slideshow appear, it’ll play before moving to the next item. You can also [...]

Source : D' Technology Weblog (subscribe)

Explore : Flickr, Photo Sharing

The Widget Rush to B2B (Widget Blog - Sexy Widget)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:56:17 GMT

... strings doomed most of these companies - The bubble burst Are we seeing a similar cycle in the widget space? Like ecommerce, the promise of widgets (at least from a marketing perspective) has a lot to do with cost benefits over an incumbent system – it’s cheaper to let your users distribute your message than it is to pay for your own distribution. And like the ecommerce example, increasing...

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Explore : e-business, Electronic Commerce, Internet

Some widget love using the MyBlogLog API (The MyBlogLog Blog)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:56 GMT

Ok, so this might just be the pretty much the most rad thing I have ever seen. Using the MyBlogLog API , check out what MBL member KeyJ63 created! At first glance it looks like our normal run of the mill Recent Reader widget. You got your recent visitors, a link to join the community and all that jazz. But oh? What is this community tab up top? Clicking on that will pop up an entire screen of...

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Flickr finally launches embeddable slideshow widget (Download Squad)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Filed under: Internet , Web services , Yahoo! , Social Software , web 2.0 Image sharing site Flickr has allowed users to view attractive slideshows of search results or image sets for a while now. But for some reason, up until now you had to rely on a third party service if you wanted to embed that slideshow on your own web page. Or you could create an iFrame and figure out how to create the code...

Source : Download Squad (subscribe)

Explore : Flickr, Internet

Widget makers get a makeover | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com (Snipperoo)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:52:19 GMT

Uh-oh, don't mention the widget Widget makers get a makeover Still, social app companies are shifting strategies. One thing that's quietly changing is the lingo. Turns out the word "widget" just doesn't cut it when you're trying to sell advertising...

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Explore : CNET Networks

Google Fixes 404 Widget Scripting Errors (Search Engine Roundtable)

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:49:42 GMT

Google representative JohnMu says that you should be returning a 404 error when using this widget (though it will now work if the page returns a 200 status too!) That's great, because in the example in , it wasn't working because a 404 wasn't being returned. Try the page now and let us know what you think.

Source : Search Engine Roundtable (subscribe)

Explore : Google, SEO

Internet Widgets Travel to TV via Intel/Yahoo Partnership (Mediabuyerplanner)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:38:39 GMT

Viewers will soon be able to integrate widget applications into their television viewing experience thanks to a partnership between Intel and Yahoo. The two companies have developed a...

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Explore : Advertising and Marketing, Internet, Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

Widget makers get a makeover (Cnet)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT

For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned to a worrisome hush.

Source : Cnet (subscribe)

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Intel, Yahoo! to launch television widget framework (Telecompaper)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:27:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Intel and Yahoo! plan to launch the Widget Channel, a television application framework optimised for TV and related consumer electronics devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to access internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favourite TV programmes. The Widget Channel will be powered by the Yahoo!...

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Intel, Yahoo partner on Internet-TV widget project (USA Today)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:35:38 GMT

Hoping to plant their flags on the screens of Internet-connected television sets, Intel and Yahoo unveiled a new project Wednesday ...

Source : USA Today (subscribe)

Explore : Internet, Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

Yahoo, Intel Partner on TV Widget Platform (Digital Media Wire)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:36:07 GMT

San Francisco - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) and Intel (NASD: INTC) on Wednesday announced a partnership that will see them collaborate on the development of Web widgets that will bring interactive features to TV viewing. read more

Source : Digital Media Wire (subscribe)

Explore : Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

Do You Want Widgets on Your TV? (GigaOM)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:47:09 GMT

Intel and Yahoo announced today they are teaming up to try and make television interactive. Yahoo will manage a widget library for Intel’s OEM partners that will include social, informational and personalized add-ons for TV. Columnist Michael Wolf has the story on NewTeeVee. The announcement is a bit like deja vu, since Yahoo and Intel for [...]

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Yahoo and Intel’s Web TV widget could be the winner (Between the Lines)

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:27 GMT

One last thought: it’s good to see Yahoo emerge as a partner in this effort. The company certainly has had in recent months so it’s good to see it partnered on something that has potential to be a winner. A Yahoo executive was asked at IDF about monetizing these widgets - a legitimate question. The executive replied that advertising is a core piece of Yahoo’s business model and it’s expected...

Source : Between the Lines (subscribe)

Explore : Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

Yahoo and Intel Working on Widget Framework For TV; Twitter on TV (Paidcontent)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:08:46 GMT

Glad to see Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) still has some activity going on in its Connected Life unit: Intel ( NSDQ: INTC ), on its developer day, has previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a TV application framework to bring online apps/widgets onto TV...it has tied up with Yahoo for it, which will supply its "Yahoo Widget Engine". These will bring content, information and community...

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Explore : Entertainment, Media, Twitter, Web Portals and Web Directories, Yahoo!

Check out my Zannel widget! (PardonMyFrench)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:56:11 GMT

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