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Nice widget construction system from Jango
Google Discontinues Inline Gadgets
Google Discontinues Inline GadgetsGoogle earlier this month announced they’ll stop allowing new gadgets for iGoogle which are using the “html-inline” functionality. An inline gadget, as opposed to a normal gadget, can have more control over the full iGoogle page as it is not wrapped in an inline frame. Typical uses of an inline gadget may be changing the Google logo, creating a themes directory gadget, or uncluttering the iGoogle homepage by removing certain links... in other words, all the kind of stuff you need to do when you want to “break out” of your iframe. As you can imagine, this may pose security risks, in particular when it comes to Google account kidnapping (even though Google did have some preventions against that).
Google on December 8th said:
[I]nlined gadgets will officially become deprecated and blocked from being rendered on iGoogle. As promised, we will take a snapshot of all inlined gadgets that currently exist and specifically allow only those that were collected to continue rendering.
Wow, we had a good conference. I'm only just resurfacing, apologies to all I owe communications to. We'll be doing it all again next year with an expanded lineup and more than one event. David Cushman does a great roundup on his blog with lots of video. Thanks to everyone who took part, it was a great widget event.
Video and more commentary on David's blog:
Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: Video and thoughts from Widgety Goodness 07
Video and thoughts from Widgety Goodness 07
So finally, I get a chance to share with you some stuff about Widgety Goodness. And it's all good.
I even shot (badly) some video on my Nokia N73, so you can get a sample of some (not all) of the speakers.
Not sure why they didn't announce this at Widgety Goodness - though actually it's not due until next year.
Online Ad World Gets Wider with Widgets
Clearspring plans to offer widgets with online ads, an area where Google is already playing.
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Google is getting a new competitor.Widget maker Clearspring Technologies on Dec. 10 said it plans to launch an ad network to help its media publishing customers make money from their content.
ADVERTISEMENTGeared for social networks, start pages and blogs, the Widget Ad Network serves ads within publishers' widgets, which are mini applications designed to engender user interaction on Web sites.
Showing the ads in widgets, which pop up on Web sites, is an alternative to showing them as banner ads, which tend to get ignored on social network sites. Advertisers believe using widgets to market their products will get more people to view and interact with the advertisement.
So the good folks of Livejournal have been sold on by their owner, Six Apart, to a Russian oberfuherer. No-one seems very concerned and it probably wont' have any effect on the users - may even be beneficial. Who knows, they may even have a positive attitude to widgets. But it does raise questions about who owns the users.
LiveJournal & SUP
San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world's leading
independent blogging software and services company, today announced
that SUP, an international media company, has acquired LiveJournal
(LJ), the pioneer of social networking communities online used by
millions of people around the world to connect through personal
journals and topic-based communities. SUP has launched an American
company, LiveJournal, Inc., to manage and operate LiveJournal globally.
Six Apart acquired LiveJournal in January 2005 from its founder, Brad Fitzpatrick. From its founding, LiveJournal popularized many of the fundamental innovations of social media, such as friends lists and powerful privacy controls.
