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OpenSocial API Blog: OpenSocial 1.1 Published!

2010-11-24T00:53:00.000-08:00

OpenSocial API Blog: OpenSocial 1.1 Published!

delhi blast delhi bomb news

2008-09-13T08:21:00.000-07:00

delhi blast, All delhi live news, Latest delhi bomb, news, delhi news
Click here www.100india.com
Bomb blasts rocked busy market places within minutes of each other killing more than 8 people and injuring many more.

Delhi Blast Live news

2008-09-13T07:20:00.000-07:00

Delhi blast live news
Delhi was rocked by four serial blasts which killed 7 and injured over 30. The blasts took place at Ghaffar Market, Greater Kailash I and two at Connaught Place areas.
Click Here --->www.100india.com

2008-06-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

New Orkut Chat Gadgets in Orkut gadgets Directory
Hi

After five days of
I am posting about my gadgets
I create a gadget for Chatting on orkut.
Which provides a gtalk interface in orkut profile.

Gtalk Chat! A chatting Application [ Created By: Preetam Purbia ,Student At:ECK, Kota]
Plz Promote This Application
http://www.orkut.co.in/AppInfo.aspx?appId=653845678225
Click this link and add this application to your Apps

Orkut India Chat! A simple chatting room to provide an environment between the orkut users , while hiding the orkut Username , it provides you to make new friends.
http://www.orkut.co.in/AppInfo.aspx?appId=337192591261
Click this link and add this application to your Apps

Thanks

2008-06-11T00:36:00.000-07:00

Chat! With your Orkut Friends
Click here
http://www.orkut.co.in/Application.aspx?appId=653845678225
Click this link and add this application to your Apps

2008-06-09T13:55:00.000-07:00

Official Google Gadgets API Blog: Join us at Google I/O

2008-06-09T04:13:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense Money Making Schemes
Google Adsense is a successful business model for publishers. It enables genuine content owners to monetize their content through ads served by the Adsense servers.
However, it appears that there is a proliferation of “Get Rich” schemes that are coming up across the globe which are becoming a source of concern.
Some of the schemes provide genuine services such as providing website templates or designing assistance for maximizing ad publications. Such services have a role to play and need to continue.
However, along with the genuine services there are many service offerings where the public are being lured into a membership of a scheme with a promise of “Monthly payments from Google” as if the servies are being used by Google. Such offerors collect some upfront money and use it for developing a website in the name of the member and placing adsense ads in these websites.
Most of these sites display content related to online casinos, pornographic stuff and other material which would attract a matching set of ads.
Though it is possible that these sites attract visitors and provide “Ad Views” and also provide occasional “Click Throughs” etc resulting in revenues flowing to the members in the form of cheques from Google, there is a need to spread a word of caution to those who subscribe to such memberships.
Firstly the member is providing authority express or implied to the service provider to create a website and place certain content there in for the purpose of generating some income for which he does not pt in any effort other than paying the membership fee. These are dummy sites with no real content and Google has every right to treat this as a “Fraud” on the Adsense scheme. It may stop payment and hence the member may lose the promised revenue.
Second and more dangerous aspect is that if the websites display content which are of pornographic type or promotion of legally banned online lotteries or say terrorist related information or distribute virus, then the responsibility for the illegal activity falls on the owner of the website.
I have therefore requested Google Adsense team to clarify on whether they recognize such schemes as “Frauds” and waiting for their reply.
In the meantime, I request Google to strengthen their system of clearing content owners for the purpose of ad sense eligibility and also take action against the service providers who are misusing the Google brand to collect money from the public under the above types of get-rich schemes.
Google needs to accredit genuine service providers who project their service fairly as “Template Creators” and” Advertising Agents”. But those who provide ready made website packages with content meant to take the adsense ads need to be dis accredited. For this purpose Google Adsense should display on the web a list of accredited and banned service providers so that public can use the services of the genuine service providers while avoiding others.
This caution posting has been placed in this forum for the special information of public in India where these schemes seem to be spreading like wild fire.

2008-06-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

Aonix Begins Implementation of Java Multiprocessor Virtual Machine

SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)-- Aonix(R), the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced the beginning of implementation efforts to add symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capability to its flagship product PERC Ultra. Dubbed PERC Ultra SMP, the product will address the added complexities inherent in design, development, and deployment of SMP-targeted applications where the benefits of scalability, portability, and maintainability of Java applications can be fully realized.

2008-06-09T04:08:00.000-07:00

iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games

Ian Lamont writes "In the runup to Apple's WWDC 2008, Chris Tompkins thinks that the iPhone's gaming potential 'might finally put the lackluster Java-based cell phone gaming market to death.' He cites the iPhone's use of Core Animation adapted for ARM processors, which he says allows for the advanced effects of OS X and now OpenGL-accelerated 3D games, as well as the importance of an on-demand store and Internet connection. Tompkins says that while certain genres lend themselves to the iPhone's touch controls, such as real-time strategy games (think StarCraft) the lack of physical controls will force developers to creatively approach the multitouch and accelerometer on the iPhone. His advice to Apple — make a compelling overture to independent game designers, and treat them like rock stars. Tompkins, incidentally, is one of several people who have recently pointed to Apple's mobile gaming potential."

2008-06-09T03:53:00.000-07:00

Sun Microsystems Unveils New Version of Java CAPS and Master Data Management Suite

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the immediate availability of Sun Java(TM) Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6, the latest version of its flagship service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software. Sun also released a new master data management (MDM) suite, a high performance and unified solution that gives users a single view of their customer data and helps them more effectively manage customer relationships. Java CAPS 6 is the first SOA platform by a major technology provider built on open source through the Open ESB community at https://open-esb.dev.java.net/.
With Java CAPS 6, users are able to leverage existing and new IT investments to create an infrastructure that is more agile and better aligned with the needs of their organizations today. A lightweight and extensible platform, Java CAPS 6 lets users rapidly add and integrate components in a modular fashion. New enhancements to Java CAPS include: a modular Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for rapidly coupling applications; advanced event processing and business process management capabilities and alignment with latest versions of the Sun GlassFish(TM) Enterprise Server and NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software.

Additional information on key components of Java CAPS 6 includes:
Sun Java(TM) ESB Suite: Based on Open ESB and JBI, the Sun Java ESB Suite is a completely open and modular platform that enables the rapid creation of composite applications and connects with various components and protocols for a flexible SOA.
Intelligent Event Processor (IEP): Offers the ability to identify trends and patterns in real-time, enabling organizations to address critical business issues and take corrective actions proactively.
Business Process Management: Supports BPEL 2, includes new high availability and failover features, and provides monitoring processes through integration with IEP.
GlassFish(TM) and NetBeans (IDE) Software Support: Incorporates the GlassFish Enterprise Server, using industry-leading interoperability with .NET and WSIT/Project Metro as well as the unified and pluggable NetBeans IDE software to provide greater control.

2008-06-09T03:46:00.000-07:00

Widget Downloads Links
StatPress
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/statpress.zip

WP-Polls
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-polls.2.30.zip

Sidebar Widgets
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/widgets.1.2.1.zip

2008-06-09T03:41:00.000-07:00

Time-Relevant Widget Needed?

Author and designer Jeffrey Zeldman recently left an interesting comment in a post where he discusses removing the Ma.gnolia bookmarks feed form his blog. In this interesting comment Zeldman discusses the need for a time-relevant plug-in that could unite content from Flickr, Twitter, bookmarking tools, etc.
For about six months, I've been trying to figure out how to create a plug-in that would associate any stream (such as Flickr, Ma.gnolia, and Twitter for example) with a given post, so that a post from a particular day in April 2008 would have photos and Tweets and links from that same day, or a user-determined close time frame. The idea is to collect time-related objects, as one can easily do when hand-rolling a blog post in HTML, but as one presently cannot do with automated blogging software and social networking applications. Imagine a blog post from five years ago that talks about your band, and is associated with Flickr photos of you and your band as you looked five years ago-not because you manually inserted the photos, but because time-linkage between web applications is possible. Imagine a blog post from five years from now that talks about your wedding and is associated with Flickr photos of your wedding-not because you manually inserted the photos, but because time-linkage between web applications is possible.

The social feed aggregators like FriendFeed or Social Thing should be able to do something like this. Personal blogs especially might be more interesting if the day's blog posts, tweets and Flickr photographs could be shown together. This would give a great view of a what a person was doing on a specific date. On the other hand if people use their blog, Twitter, Flickr and other tools for completely different reasons then a time-relevant plug-in or widget would not gel at all. A category or tag oriented plug-in might work better for some blogs. It does seem like a unifying widget of somekind is needed - something that is more advanced than your typical widget that sits in the sidebar. On FriendFeed, Twitter and elsewhere there has also been discussion of widgets or plug-ins that could bring comments and other data back to people's blogs again. In this era of rapidly launching web 2.0 sites you usually don't have to wait too long before someone develops the widget you have been waiting for.

Update 4-21-08: There is a Yahoo Pipes entry called RSS Filter By Date that pulls in time-relevant RSS entries. You can see it in action here on author Sonja Foust's blog.

2008-06-09T03:39:00.000-07:00

Worlds Top 10 MUST HAVE Web Widgets for your online page.
(sorted alphabetically)

1. Bookmark This - http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription - Widget http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge - http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor - http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog - http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget - http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update - http://Twitter.com
8. Playlist Video Widget - http://Youtube.com
9. Web Poll Widget - http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening - http://iLike.com

2008-06-09T03:33:00.000-07:00

Advertisements Through Widgets

More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called “widgets,” little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements.
So measuring Web traffic to those widgets is important for deciding what content to deliver, and what sites to deliver it on. A number of companies now offer widget traffic measurement tools, with Quantcast being the latest.
Here’s a summary of some of the main players in this nascent but increasingly important field:
Quantcast – This relatively new San Francisco company monitors traffic to Internet sites. Today, it adds a video and widget measurement service, also free. It is still a test version and publishers include Slide, PictureTrail, RockYou, MetaCafe and MochiMedia. It reports on traffic to all Flash-based media, including online games and downloaded desktop widgets. The service reports a widget’s “reach,” the number of times a video has been “played” or that widget has been clicked on, and the categories chosen (a publisher can tag a widget or video as a “game” or “comedy,” for example). It will also report things such as which users clicked on the widget most often (frequency), and the demographics of these users, based on other information Quantcast collects. It provides this information in a pie chart. To use it, you have to register here www.quantcast.com/quantified-publisher.jsp, and more info is here www.quantcast.com/quantified-video.jsp. See chart below.
Clearspring – The company offers traffic analytics for publishers like Time, NBC, Universal and Maxim – which together now have more than 4.2 billion widget views. Last month, the company began letting developers write, distribute and tracking widgets through Clearspring. Like other offerings, it provides a dashboard, and tracks things like a widget’s source domain, number of visits and geography of visitor. Clearstone, like Quantcast, is hands-off on the widget creation process. You’ll need a third-party developer to build a widget if you want one built.
WidgetBox – This company provides a “wrapper” to widget developers so that they can track the widgets. Again, you’ll need to build the widget yourself.
Musestorm -– The company distributes widgets for both the Web and the desktop. Notably, though, this company goes a step further. Other companies put a “wrapper” around the widget and then track that widget. However, they can’t track activity of content within the widget. Musestorm lets you do that -– for example letting you know how many times a video within the widget has been played, and how users switch between surrounding audio and text. Quantcast, Widgetbox and Clearspring don’t offer that. Musestorm also lets you update widget content, adding and removing items, and so lets you track performance of variable kinds of content. Musestorm has a new release coming this summer containing other features.

2008-06-09T03:31:00.000-07:00

All Widget Links
3Bubbles, a chat tool for blogs
Adam Kalsey's Button Maker, add a button to your blog
Babel Fish, add a translation tool to your blog
bLaugh, add a blog-related comic to your blog
Blog Hot or Not, add a Blog Hot or Not rating bar to your blog.
Blog in Space, feed your blog into outer space
Blogcartoons, Free cartoons to post on your blog
BlogRolling.com, add a Blogroll to your blog
Blogthings.com, add quiz results to your blog
Blue-Blooded Blogger badge, get a badge for your blog that shows your passion for blogging
Brilliant Button Maker, add a button to your blog
Bunchball, add Flash games to your blog
Cafepress, add a store with your logo or designs to your blog
ClockLink.com, add a clock to your blog
Del.icio.us, add a link roll to your blog
Emoticons4u.com, put emoticons and smileys on your blog
Feedjit, web traffic and visitor map widgets
Flickr.com, add photos to your blog
Frappr, add a Frappr map to your blog
Gabbly, a chat tool for blogs
Gapingvoid Widget, add a gapingvoid cartoon on your blog
Glassy Buttons, add a button to your blog
Google Gadgets, thousands of different add-ons for your blog or website
Gravatar.com, get a Gravatar to identify yourself when you post comments on a blog that accepts gravatars.
Haloscan.com, add comments and trackbacks to your blog
Hello, post images to your blog. Works with Blogger
How Much is My Blog Worth, add a ridiculous button that shows how much your blog is worth to your blog
ImageShack, host images for your blog
iMood.com, put your mood on your blog
Kineda Blogger Ranking Widget, determine whether your blog is an A-list, B-list, C-list or D-list blog
Meez, add a 3D avatar to your blog
Mobber, a chat tool for blogs
Moodsticker, a Moodsticker tracks the current mood of LiveJournal users
MusicVideoCodes.com, put music videos on your blog
MyBlogLog, add a community to your blog
MyChingo, add voice comments to your blog
Online Button Maker, add a button to your blog
Photobucket.com, host images for your blog
Pingoat Blog Worth Calculator, calculate the value of your blog
PollHost.com, put polls on your blog
Quizilla, add quizzes to your blog
Sideblog, add a small, seperate sideblog to your blog
Site Meter, add a counter and/or get web traffic measurement for your blog
SketchPlanet, add sketches to your blog
StikIt, StikIt from Opinmind allows bloggers to insert bloggers' opinions about a subject or keyword into their blog.
Street Sign Generator, make a street sign for your blog
Tag-Board, add discussion to your blog
TagCloud, show your blog's most popular tags on your blog
Technorati Profiles, add a profile and search box to your blog
Wanabo.com, let others tag your blog
Warning Label Generator, make a warning label for your blog
We Love Widgets, add a horoscope widget to your blog
WebSmileys.com, put animated emoticons on your blog
Wunderground.com Weather Stickers, add a weather sticker to your blog

2008-06-09T03:13:00.000-07:00

Welcome, Year of the Widget
Sean Stroupe has a fairly typical MySpace page in that it’s fairly atypical. His profile is tricked out with a song that plays whenever his page is reloaded, two slideshows from recent parties, a couple of YouTube videos that caught his fancy and an audio message from his mother, posted with just a twinge of irony. “You want to make it as interesting as possible. Or as fun,” he says of customizing one’s profile. Millions of MySpace members dress up their pages with videos, music, photos and more. And the technology that makes it all possible is so easy to use that, like Stroupe, many MySpacers didn’t even know they were using it. But each movable part of Stroupe’s profile is there thanks to a widget. Get used to that word.
If you sit in front of a computer at work, chances are there are certain Web sites that you monitor throughout the day, every day—to check e-mail, weather, stock portfolios or sports stats. But, thanks to widgets, taking multiple steps to track down headlines in one place and then check your e-mail in another may seem woefully outdated this time next year. These mini-applications—also called “gadgets”—are simple bits of code, easily dragged onto a desktop or pasted into a personal page, where they are constantly updated with whatever information you want. “It’s the exact opposite of what the Web used to be,” explains Om Malik, a tech journalist and founding editor of gigaom.com. Last month Malik and Niall Kennedy, another tech blogger, organized and hosted Widgets Live—an entire sold-out conference devoted to the topic (in, where else?, San Francisco). “Widgets,” he says, “bring the Web to you.” Think of it as tech jewelry—bling for your blog; ice for your desktop.
If 2006 was all about social networks, user-generated content and YouTube, then it’s a fair bet that 2007 will be about further personalizing life online. Already, portals like Google and Yahoo! offer customizable pages. Want to see a calendar, learn a new word-of-the-day and check local windsurfing conditions all from your homepage? No problem, you have thousands of widgets to choose from. And the fact that they’re so intuitive has made the features very popular. “The Google personal homepage is the fastest-growing Google product,” says Marissa Mayer, the company’s vice president of “search products and user experience.” “This market is going to be very large.”
This has not gone unnoticed by content providers. Old-media juggernauts like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and ESPN have begun allowing users to design the page they see when they log on. Flickr.com, the photo-sharing site, lets its members create a “badge” that they can post on their blogs and personal home pages to let friends know when they’ve uploaded new snapshots. Last month, Fox Interactive Media (comprising all of Fox’s sites as well as MySpace, RottenTomatoes.com and AskMen.com) launched its own platform, called SpringWidgets. Not all of this is great news for mainstream media outlets just yet. Steve Rubel, a senior marketing strategist at the Edelman public relations firm, points out in his personal technology blog MicroPersusaion that widgets could signal the end of the page view as a metric for measuring a site’s popularity. If you read a local news story through the Google Reader, for example, the local paper will not register the hit. This could create skittishness among some content providers. “Media companies love to promote how many page views their properties get,” writes Rubel. “They've used the data to build equity. They will fight it tooth and nail to protect it, perhaps by not embracing interactive technologies as quickly as they should.”
But don’t expect the gadgets to go away any time soon. Widgets will be prominently featured in the two big operating systems due out this year. In spring 2007, Apple will release the newest version of its Mac OS X operating system, codenamed “Leopard,” which will let users build widgets from scratch and share them with others, even if they’ve never written a line of code. Vista, Microsoft Windows’s new operating system, will come with 11 “gadgets” out of the box and also offer users the ability to build more and upload them to Windows Live. “I think we’ll be seeing thousands and thousands of these mini-programs,” says Gabe Dorfman, a Microsoft product manager. “They are pretty cheap to develop, don’t require advanced coding skills and are super-easy to use for the end-user as well.”
This, of course, is music to advertisers’ ears. Target has a gadget that counts down to Christmas; Wrigley’s sponsors a Winamp media player that looks like a pack of gum; UPS has a package-tracking widget. Purina put its name on a weather widget—to let users know if it’s nice enough outside to take Spot out for walkies—that was downloaded more than 15,000 times in its first two months. This may seem like a paltry audience for two months of advertising. But consider the fact that the Purina logo now sits on every one of those 15,000 desktops, smack in the users’ line of sight. “It’s better than advertising,” says Om Malik. “It’s in front of your eyes constantly; that brand becomes your brand.” Your widgets certainly don’t need to come branded, however. Indeed, that’s the whole point: to help the World Wide Web become your Web.

2008-06-09T03:10:00.000-07:00

Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers

The online giant will announce today a Gadget Ads program that will provide tools for advertisers to run widget ads in Google’s AdSense network.
Marketers can use space within these display ads on Google’s network to show videos, offer chats with celebrities, play host to games or other activities. If consumers like the widget ad, they can save it onto their desktops or on their profile pages online on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
The new widget ads represent a more aggressive push by Google to attract big brand advertisers who like flashy ad units rather than the simple text ads commonly run in Google’s ad network.

2008-06-09T03:01:00.001-07:00

Security considerations for widget:

As any program code, widgets can be used for malicious purposes. One example is the Facebook “Secret Crush” widget, discovered in early 2008 by Fortinet as luring users to install Zango malware

2008-06-09T03:00:00.001-07:00

Widgets
Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the start of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. It could be said that the original web widgets were the link counters and advertising banners that grew up alongside the early web. Later, ad and affiliate networks used code widgets for distribution purposes.

A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third party originated, though they can be home made. Widgets are also known as modules, snippets, and plug-ins.

2008-06-09T02:56:00.001-07:00

A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.