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Monday, November 6, 2006
6:54:00 PM EST
First off - Byrne Reese from Six Apart. Byrne wrote the Widget Manager for Six Apart. Their blogging sites (Typepad, LiveJournal, Vox and Moveable Type) have great widget systems, user created and others. He showed off some fun widgets, including a Mood widget for LiveJournal that will show the general widget on LiveJournal (LiveJournal can be a very moody place). TypePad calls widgets "Bling for your blog" (cute!). For them (and I think for everyone else), widgets are really about a way for third parties to integrate third party content into their blog, any third party content. Byrne also announced an association with WidgetBox today, so all of those widgets can be used as well.
Next up - Andy Skelton from WordPress. The WordPress widget system works much like the other sites out there - drag and drop - give someone a way to integrate content into their site that they may not necessarily be able to write. They also very much wanted to give other sites a way to integrate with them (hey baby, wanna integrate?) - they like letting other sites interact with theirs.
Then...Greg Phipps from Windows Live Spaces. I have to admit I have a goofy fan adoration for Spaces. It is the blogging side of Live.com, with a whole permissions system where you can choose who can see your blog (hmm...who else has that...oh oh we do! /g). They used to call their widgets "parts," where you could drag and drop pieces around on your blog. Now they've moved to a full gadget framework (they launched this over the summer), letting you put these different gadgets on your blog, and are continually updating how much this can do (another update will be coming later this week). I want to work with them. A lot. And I told them that too.
And finally *drumroll please* John Panzer! John ran through a demo of AIM Pages modules, specifically showing off the What's New Module and how you can add/remove third party content to it. Did you know what your AIM Pages What's New Module - and thereby your What's New Indicator in AIM - can show content from Flickr? Mine does! He also pointed out that we do accept third party content in your blog (like the MyBlogLog thing), we just need to approve the sites first through out whitelisting process.
The first part of the Q&A asked how far can we go with these widgets. Andy Skelton (WordPress) said "as far as our minds can take us." I agree with that - everything can work with anything, we just need to make it do that. He also discussed how if we really want widgets to grab all sorts of info, it needs to be available in the markup of the page. One of those really obvious observations that is SO obvious nobody was pointing it out.
Marc Canter (I'm waiting for those pictures) offered to aggregate all information if we made it available via our pages. People Aggregator can do this, I'm sure, and we'd love to see it pull in your blog from here. Why not, right?
For that matter, we'd love to be able to pull other site's content into AIM Pages, onto your blog, into AIM, wherever you want it. But I've said that before, and instead of becoming a broken record, I'm going to shut up until the next panel. :)
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6:54:00 PM EST
Yay John! (aka, the Blogging Widget Panel)
Next up - Andy Skelton from WordPress. The WordPress widget system works much like the other sites out there - drag and drop - give someone a way to integrate content into their site that they may not necessarily be able to write. They also very much wanted to give other sites a way to integrate with them (hey baby, wanna integrate?) - they like letting other sites interact with theirs.
Then...Greg Phipps from Windows Live Spaces. I have to admit I have a goofy fan adoration for Spaces. It is the blogging side of Live.com, with a whole permissions system where you can choose who can see your blog (hmm...who else has that...oh oh we do! /g). They used to call their widgets "parts," where you could drag and drop pieces around on your blog. Now they've moved to a full gadget framework (they launched this over the summer), letting you put these different gadgets on your blog, and are continually updating how much this can do (another update will be coming later this week). I want to work with them. A lot. And I told them that too.
And finally *drumroll please* John Panzer! John ran through a demo of AIM Pages modules, specifically showing off the What's New Module and how you can add/remove third party content to it. Did you know what your AIM Pages What's New Module - and thereby your What's New Indicator in AIM - can show content from Flickr? Mine does! He also pointed out that we do accept third party content in your blog (like the MyBlogLog thing), we just need to approve the sites first through out whitelisting process.
The first part of the Q&A asked how far can we go with these widgets. Andy Skelton (WordPress) said "as far as our minds can take us." I agree with that - everything can work with anything, we just need to make it do that. He also discussed how if we really want widgets to grab all sorts of info, it needs to be available in the markup of the page. One of those really obvious observations that is SO obvious nobody was pointing it out.
Marc Canter (I'm waiting for those pictures) offered to aggregate all information if we made it available via our pages. People Aggregator can do this, I'm sure, and we'd love to see it pull in your blog from here. Why not, right?
For that matter, we'd love to be able to pull other site's content into AIM Pages, onto your blog, into AIM, wherever you want it. But I've said that before, and instead of becoming a broken record, I'm going to shut up until the next panel. :)
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11/9/06 3:06 PM
We released the Windows Live Spaces update yesterday. You can read about it on the Spaces Team blog - The Spacecraft - http://thespacecraft.spaces.l
cheers,
greg <8-)
Greg Phipps - http://gphipps.spaces.live.co