Last.fm: widgets deluxe

instead of the much anticipated video-upgrade, we just have received a very cool Last.fm flash-widget, which is embedding personalized radio-streams (“recently played”…), playlists & charts to any given website. check the sidebar of this page, press the “play”-button & start grooving (click here if you’re reading this post in your RSS-reader!) …stunning!
(more on TechCrunch)

fowa2007 – Netvibes exclusive announcement

Tariq Krim from Netvibes just announced the release of an open source javascript runtime (Universal Widget API, UWA) including the Netvibes UI-library. no details on their blog yet, but this should kick off an avalanche of additional Netvibes-module, further strengthening Netvibes’ lead in the market (click for an Alexa traffic-comparison of Netvibes, Pageflakes etc.). [...]

widgets all over the place!

yesterday definitely was “widget-day”, as WidgetsLive, the first conference solely centerend on web-widgets took place in san francisco. of all the talks & product-announcements (read Liz Gannes’ extensive coverage at GigaOM), Fox Interactive’s launch of their widget-platform SpringWidgets (beta) was probably the hottest topic of the day.
while I tend to find most widget-engines quite [...]

Google: gadgets & mashups

as of yesterday, more than 1.200 Google Gadgets formerly restricted to Google Desktop are now free for use on any website you want. the widget-collection includes modules for streaming-video, inline-chat, flickr- or iTunes-integration as well as loads of – more-or-less useless – eyecandy.
more interesting: Google launched an unbranded search-frontend at searchmash.com earlier this week. looks [...]

Grazr: feed- & outline-browser

recently released Grazr 1.0 is a powerful web-widget displaying RSS-feeds and OPML outlines of any source. OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML-based outline-format, usually consisting of linked lists of RSS-feeds. integrating Grazr into your website is fairly easy and requires nothing more than the source-URL of the feed/outline you want to browse. the [...]

meeboMe: personal IM-widget

it has been around the blogosphere all day, and if you are reading this blog using a web-browser, you already might have recognized it on the sidebar: as of today, meebo – the web-based meta-IM-client reviewed few weeks ago – offers a flash-based IM-widget for inclusion in any website.

so how does it work? after adding [...]