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• Wither Blogging? Not Yet, But Perhaps Soon

  Published: July 18, 2007, 9:52 pm

  Tags: Community, Mobile, Moblogging, Social Networking, Weblogs, Widgets, Sos

  one reason why YouTube and widgets got hot. Second, there's the proliferation of mobile Internet usage. I don't have the statistics handy but my gut is that the upper strata of Forrester's participation ladder includes many smart-phone owners. As a reporter from MSNBC found, you can increasingly do a lot with these devices by themselves. On

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• Featured links for July 4th

  Published: July 4, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Daily Links, Apple, Business, Dashboard, Del Icio Us, Email, Hacking, Iphone, Links, Macintosh, Mbwideas, Os X, Retail, Seth Godin, Via Waxy Org, Widgets

  seth godin, via:waxy.org, widgets Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get 43% off with checkout coupon 43OFFTHRUJUL. Offer ends 7/31.

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• Mining For Gold: Tantalizing Hints at New iPhone Capabilities Uncovered in Firmware

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:22 am

  Tags: Applications, Firmware, Iphone, Mining For Gold, Widgets

  They also found a few widgets that aren't on the iPhone yet, either. As you can see in the screenshot above, it has an entry for a Unit Converter, as well as three widgets: a phonebook (something that's already available in the Phone section of the iPhone), a Translation widget and a World Clock. The iPhoneologists also posit that there

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• iPhone firmware hints at new widgets, including MobileRadio

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Apps, Hints, Iphone, Iphoneology, Mobileradio, Unitconverter, Widgets

  apparently a list of widgets placed by Apple inside the iPhone.Except that there's a few that we can't actually use yet... com.apple.unitconvertercom.apple.widget.phonebookcom.apple.widget.translationcom.apple.widget.worldclockcom.apple.mobile.radio That mobile.radio one looks especially enticing-- while built-in FM radio would be nice,

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• Embed IMs in Your Web Page With AIM WIMZI

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Aim, Ims, Widgets, Wim, Wim Api, Wimapi, Wimzi

  Filed under: Developers' Corner, Featured Items, AIM Buddy BlogA few weeks ago, AIM released WIMZI, which is a project I'd been working on for the last few months. (I previously mentioned it in my own blog.) Here's the description from the WIMZI site: "Get an AIM WIMZI widget for your blog, social networking pages or any other website! By adding

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• Widgetize Me

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Web 2 0, Blogs, Branding, Widgets, Promotion, Creative

  are producing a wealth of widgets - or gadgets as some call them - in an attempt to carve out their spot. Make no mistake, although there will be some good ones, there will be a large group of widgets gone bad. Here’s why: in their eagerness to take advantage of this opportunity, marketers won’t think through how their widget

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• Wither Blogging? Not Yet, But Perhaps Soon

  Published: July 18, 2007, 9:52 pm

  Tags: Community, Mobile, Moblogging, Social Networking, Weblogs, Widgets

  one reason why YouTube and widgets got hot. Second, there's the proliferation of mobile Internet usage. I don't have the statistics handy but my gut is that the upper strata of Forrester's participation ladder includes many smart-phone owners. As a reporter from MSNBC found, you can increasingly do a lot with these devices by themselves. On

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• iGTD Pro details, Inbox Widget released

  Published: August 4, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Getting Things Done, Gettingthingsdone, Gtd, Igtd, Tasks, Widgets

  Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools, Widget Watch Bartlomiej Bargiel has been hard at work on iGTD, his incredibly powerful task task manager based on David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy, and has recently unleashed news on what he has in store for iGTD Pro. As a matter of fact, iGTD will be split into three versions: iGTD

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• Q: Want To Create Loyal Readers? Here Is Your Answer

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Opinions, Features, Interactive, Questions Answers, Widgets

  Recent decisions by large metrics companies have made it clear that measuring the web is not about pageviews but about users. Engagement of new and veteran users has become the holy grail of the media world online or offline. Executives at print, broadcast and interactive media companies have been looking for ways to increase the time their users

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• Facebook Caters To Adult Audience

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: News, Adult Audience, Demographics, Facebook, Microsoft, Social Networks, Web Sites, Widgets

  Facebook has grown up and is hanging out with an older crowd than at its inception. The social networking site, which originally hosted only college students, has become a sensation amongst professionals since it let down the barriers and became open to everyone. In June of this year, comScore Media Metrix reported that 11.5 million unique users

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• iWeb '08

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Mac Web Galleries, Macwebgalleries, Adsense, Domains, Google, Iweb, Themes, Widgets

  understands this. Web Widgets Finally melding the power and ease iWeb brings to publishing your Mac's media with the rest of the internet is iWeb's arguably biggest new feature: Web Widgets. While this page is a little skimpy on details, we can now embed code snippets from the endless community sites cropping up on the web into our iWeb

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• Add the AIM WIMZI Widget to Your Facebook Profile

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: Facebook, How To, Tutorial, Widgets, Wimzi

  Filed under: AIM Help, AIM General, AIM Buddy Blog, Community InfoSo a bunch of folks asked, "Hey, in your newsletter (you know, the one that goes to, like, millions of people), you said you can add the AIM WIMZI widget (the one that lets people IM you from your Web page) to your Facebook profile. But you didn't say how!": Ooops. That was teh

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• Freewebs Gives Users A Voice & Publishers New Ad Space

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Spotlight, Features, Advertising, Freewebs, Widgets

  the potential with branded widgets. This is to say that branded widgets are publishable anywhere on the web that allow advertiser to extend their brand. This introduces a new form of advertising that is still

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• iPhone to gain Spotlight and true widget support?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Iphone, Software, Spotlight, Widgets

  icon could be used for widgets that don't provide their own (hint hint, future iPhone widget developers).Next up are pictures named spotlight-full.png and spotlight-keyboard.png, the former pictured in this post. Again, I agree with Geddes that these are very suggestive of Spotlight being included in a future iPhone update. With all the

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• Apple introduces My iTunes Widgets

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Apple, Itunes, Itunes Store, Itunesstore, Widgets

  on that trend with My iTunes Widgets. My iTunes Widgets are 3 widgets that you can embed into a website (Apple suggests your blog, or your social networking site profile) which will display either your most recent iTunes purchases, your favorite iTunes artists (based on how much of their stuff you have purchased), or your iTunes reviews.You have

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