Archives
November 2006
11/30/06
11/29/06
11/29/06
11/29/06
11/27/06
11/27/06
11/22/06
11/21/06
11/20/06
11/20/06
11/18/06
11/17/06
11/16/06
11/15/06
11/15/06
11/15/06
11/14/06
11/14/06
11/13/06
11/10/06
11/8/06
11/7/06
11/6/06
It's All Widgets (Make That Modules) These Days
11/1/06
Monday, November 6, 2006
7:23:00 PM EST
Hearing Rob Base, Joy and Pain
Hi folks -- so, a bunch of folks from AOL are out in San Francisco right now at the WidgetsLive! conference to talk about (wait for it) widgets.
What's a widget? Here's the Wikipedia definition, but I would just call it a little bit of code that you can put in a Web page that does stuff.
Does that concept sound familiar? Hopefully, as an AIM Pages user, it should -- except in the AIM Pages universe, we don't call them widgets: We call them Modules.
Widgets/Modules are part and parcel of this Web 2.0 that we keep hearing about. It's all about providing little bits of functionality and services to people wherever they happen to be, and not about locking people into specific Web sites where they have to go in order to do something.
Anyway, AOL Journals Product Manager Stephanie is liveblogging from WidgetsLive (you might want to start with her first entry from the conference).
I'm not going to list out the whole AOL contingent (supporting the widgetized and modularized Web is an important part of openness and Web 2.0, so it's a big push -- AOL's even a Bronze-level sponsor of the conference).
Of note, though, AIM Pages Lead Architect Dr. Dzoe (Joe) is there, and tech manager John Panzer (the Abstractioneer, who's got his fingers in all sorts of technological pies) even spoke on a panel about Blog Widgets (including a live demo that went as many live demos do, which is to say, good thing he had a backup).
I'll keep trying to come up with concrete examples of the advantages of the open-Web services world; in the meantime, for this week, I am gonna try to start profiling some of the more prolific module creators out there, to give you a better sense of what's going on under the hood, and why we're doing what we're doing.
Thanks -- Joe
Written by aimpagesteam Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | 
digg this
7:23:00 PM EST
Hearing Rob Base, Joy and Pain
It's All Widgets (Make That Modules) These Days
What's a widget? Here's the Wikipedia definition, but I would just call it a little bit of code that you can put in a Web page that does stuff.
Does that concept sound familiar? Hopefully, as an AIM Pages user, it should -- except in the AIM Pages universe, we don't call them widgets: We call them Modules.
Widgets/Modules are part and parcel of this Web 2.0 that we keep hearing about. It's all about providing little bits of functionality and services to people wherever they happen to be, and not about locking people into specific Web sites where they have to go in order to do something.
Anyway, AOL Journals Product Manager Stephanie is liveblogging from WidgetsLive (you might want to start with her first entry from the conference).
I'm not going to list out the whole AOL contingent (supporting the widgetized and modularized Web is an important part of openness and Web 2.0, so it's a big push -- AOL's even a Bronze-level sponsor of the conference).
Of note, though, AIM Pages Lead Architect Dr. Dzoe (Joe) is there, and tech manager John Panzer (the Abstractioneer, who's got his fingers in all sorts of technological pies) even spoke on a panel about Blog Widgets (including a live demo that went as many live demos do, which is to say, good thing he had a backup).
I'll keep trying to come up with concrete examples of the advantages of the open-Web services world; in the meantime, for this week, I am gonna try to start profiling some of the more prolific module creators out there, to give you a better sense of what's going on under the hood, and why we're doing what we're doing.
Thanks -- Joe
Written by aimpagesteam Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | digg this
