widgets: beyond you 1024 x 768
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General overview of widgets and simple best practices for creative effective ones.TRANSCRIPT
Beyond your 1024 x 768: Widgets March 12, 2008 1
WIDGETS:
THINKING BEYOND YOUR 1024 x 768
PBS Summit, April 2008
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Beyond your 1024 x 768: Widgets
1. About Widgets: What, Where, and Why
2. Thoughts on Effective Widgets
3. Tools and Resources
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ABOUT WIDGETS: What, Where, Why
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Widg • et – n.A portable chunk of the web. pl. widgets.
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Example Widgets
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Types of Widgets
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…over 177 million consumerswere exposed to widgets worldwide in April, or 21% of all worldwide consumers online--a trend being driven by the current flood of user generated content, according to Linda Boland Abraham, executive vice president at comScore.
Gavin O'Malley, Thursday, Jun 14, 2007
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Widgets live on users’desktops…
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on blogs…
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on start pages and portals…
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on social networks…
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on phones.
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Even widget ‘stations’.
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Why Do Widgets Matter?
Set your free.ServicesContent
DataGames
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THINKING ABOUT SUCCESSFUL WIDGETS
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Let them do.
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Let them play.
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Let them track.
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TOOLS AND RESOURCES
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Resources: Tools and Services
• Platforms to accelerate development
• Analytics to track usage
• Galleries to distribute your widgets
Google Open Social
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Photo Credits
All photos from iStock Photo except Creative Commons Flickr
photos below:
• Nintendo Games, http://flickr.com/photos/cdammen/416339658/
• Beagles, http://flickr.com/photos/psi_mon/2138254356/