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Small is the new big (widgetisation)

Dany Taylor blogs widgets at the fabric of folly
He offers six reasons why widgets are suddenly looking interesting - we like the sixth:

6.) Small is the new big

A more fundamental reason why widgets are starting to take off is the broader shift towards smaller, more rapidly developed applications and increasing hybridisation by means of mash-ups and APIs. One only need compare the protracted product development cycle of Microsoft Office (gap between releases: 4 years) with the iterative development of Google Docs and Spreadsheets to see where things are headed. Widgets fit perfectly into this new landscape of smaller, simpler, connected apps.

Widget Predictions For 2007

Splashcast makes  My Widget Predictions For 2007

Seems the Wall Street Journal has a story in today’s paper about the growing popularity of widgets, which triggered Splashcast's excellent predictions:

 

You know widgets are the next big thing when the Wall Street Journal starts writing about widgets. Expect more of the traditional media to cover widgets over the next several months.

With all this talk about widgets, here are my predictions for 2007:

    * A national consumer magazine will feature widgets as their cover story
    * Widgets will fuel RSS as people start consuming feeds without even knowing it
    * Most people will have no idea that the cool stuff that appears on their web page or desktop is actually called a widget. A study will quantify this information and bloggers, pundits and the rest will go on and on about what this means for the Internet and humanity.
    * Widgets will take on text ads as a way for micro publishers to make money off their web sites
    * CPM rates for banner ads will drop to all time lows as widgets grow in popularity for advertisers
    * Widgets will raise issues about syndication and copyright protection
    * A widget aggregator, such as Widgetbox or snipperoo will be bought by a big media company like Yahoo! or Google
    * Widgets, coupled with the video sharing phenomena, will change how brands are positioned. More brands will start replacing traditional advertisements with humorous or informative media that people will post to their blogs and web sites through widget players
    * Widgets will change how we we publish to the web. Widgets will become a platform for personal expression as much as blogs or podcasts
    * Thankfully, we will not see a conference called “Widgetpalooza.”

Adding a Flickr Widget

This is a short demo of how to create a Flickr image badge (widget) and add it to your Snipperoo account and through that your site.
Although it's specific to creating a Flickr widget, it's really designed to show how the flow of making a widget and adding it to your account works - and how beautiful the ability to update your site remotely is.
I'll make more of these to demonstrate other aspects of Snipperoo. Now, watch this and go make an account.

It's a Float!

We get a 'float' from PostBubble - with caveats. We're working on them!
Snipperoo helps you easily add widgets to your website, if you can find the right one.

Snipperoo is betting that you want to add widgets to your blog, but you’re sick of having to deal with all that code. So, they want to help you minimize the amount of code you’re wrestling with and make it super easy to add thousands of different widgets to your blog, site or any html page. I like this concept, especially since widgets are quickly becoming insanely popular. They’ll enjoy even more use if it’s easier for site owners to deploy them.

Snipperoo does a great job of making it super easy to add a widget, but it would have been nice to have the directory a little more organized. There are some really great widgets here, but it’s a little difficult to find them. When you get ready to add your widget, you’ll need to first go to your control panel, where you can browse through the directory, such as it is. You then decide how you want your widget to look and then you’ll be given the code to paste it into your blog.

NW Start Up 2.0 this Thursday

If you are anywhere near the north west of England, don't forget this event on Thursday. It could just change your life. I'll be there to talk startups, 2.0 and the entrepreneurial life

 

NW Start Up 2.0

When Thursday, November 23, 2006 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Where IoD hub Manchester
Peter House, St Peter's Square, Oxford Street
Manchester, Manchester M1 5AN

(Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)

 

Starting an internet business? Seasoned entrepreneur? Got the killer idea? Wondering what the 2.0 this and 2.0 that is all about? Looking for investment? Looking to invest?

What about SaaS? Do you know how many SaaS vendors have entered the market recently? Have you considered starting a business in this space?

Web 2.0 (mostly consumer driven) and SaaS (B2B) are the two main evolutions taking place right now.

Come along to the north-west's first and premier 2.0 networking event for an evening of conversation and potential dealmaking. We aim to encourage creative thinking. With input from Techcrunch's Sam Sethi (http://uk.techcrunch.com), internet original Ivan Pope now Snipperoo (http://www.snipperoo.com), David Terrar of Twinfield and D Squared C (http://www.d2c.org.uk/) and Manchester entrepreneur Manoj Ranaweera of ebdex (http://www.ebdex.co.uk)

The event will be sponsored by KPMG. Imran Ali, Strategy Director of Orange will be the keynote speaker. Stuart Bruce will provide podcasting in true web2.0 style.

Widget: meet Mashup

Stowe Boyd blogs the new  30boxes timeline widget (and I recommend go read the whole thing) 30 Boxes Timeline Widget and ends with this observation (remember this, you'll hear a lot more along these lines soon):

The complexities? I had to break the code for the widget into two pieces: one piece -- the css settings -- for the of my blog template, and the second piece went into the sidebar. Then I had to tweak a javascript call -- with the help of Narendra Rocherolle of 30 Boxes -- so that the calendar pops near the widget, and not behind the ad at the top of the blog page. If anyone wants deatiled instructions I am sure the folks at 30 Boxes will be publishing.

I really like the sorts of complexity emerging from widgets like. It's a mash-up world!

Widget Coincidences and Copacabana

So I'm sitting in a conference room in one of those gorgeous, slightly shabby white stucco mansions on Carlton House Terrace (The Foreign Press Association, this one - established in 1888) and I get into one of those wi-fi conversations ("have you got a password?" "Yes. I've got a password?" "Can I have the password?" "I suppose so. Don't tell the guy at the desk. I promised I wouldn't give it to anyone else...") with a young man and it turns out that this is a man with a widget and a widget I've actually used (and a widget, of course, that's in the Snipperoo directory). It's Anthony Voldkin, Hunter College undergrad, whose Hype Machine scrapes music blogs for playlists and whose widget... er... puts that sort of thing in your blog and who just happens to be spending a few months in London at Queen Mary University of London. Anyway, we had the Snipperoo conversation (the one about the Snipperoo button). Watch this space...
(Meanwhile, outside in the Mall, the Irish Guards are performing Copacabana).

TechCrunch UK � Blog Archive � BuddyPing: The new wave of MoSoSo

News of a great UK startup with Widgets - heaven. Thanks to TechCrunch UK: The new wave of MoSoSo.

A BuddyPing user profile can also create a Flash-based widget, which a user can place on their blog or social network homepage.

A user can publish their location to the Web widget. It doesn’t display the user’s exact location, since this would cross the line into privacy and have safety concerns, however it does indicate a relative location such as “Covent Garden”. Only a user’s authorised friends can see where they are via the site.

The widget they publish on another site will also show their uploaded photos, and allow anyone to send the user an SMS. BuddyPing charges the sender for this to stop Spam to the mobile.

SplashCast - Social Media Syndication

Hey, SplashCast have a great blog and it's even better when they quote me. Looking forward to their launch.

People Want Stuff For Their Sites or Hey Baby What’s Your Widget?

Some quotes from Ivan Pope of Snipperoo, who just spoke at Widgets Live on the topic of widgets aggregators.

“We encourage a million widget world”

“Keep your hands off my widgets”

“Online ads and affiliate marketing will spawn widget marketing”

“You will put your blog in your stuff not your stuf in your blog.”

“Sites will be constructed entirely of widgets.”

And this from BamBam of the AOL team:

“Hey, baby, what’s your widget?”

Splice

Via Springwise:

"Splice is an online music publishing community that uses Creative Commons licensing to encourage users to share their creations. Splice gives anyone, anywhere the ability to collaborate on music using web-based tools. Users can upload or record sounds, make songs, and listen to and remix other users' songs.

The primary difference between Splice and everything that came before it, is that the mixing tools are built-in. The main tool is a sequencer combined with a 'sound surfer' that lets users choose from a library of samples, loops and beats that members have uploaded for communal use. Multiple formats are supported - WAV/AIFF, MP3, OGG and FLAC - and uploaded sounds and songs are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution license (meaning that other people can use the creative output, but only if they give the maker credit).

Once a song has been published, other users can add, remix or use bits and pieces."

And of course they have widgets; every track page has an embeddable music player that you can add to your site: