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National Public Radio (NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow access to NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations. You can find more information on More»

Labels: API, widgets

Morgan Stanley has made available their Internet Trends report for 2008. The 72 page report covers:1) Usage Patterns2) Social Networking3) Widgetization4) Measureability5) Monetization6) Facebook Apps7) Online Ad Spend Online Video9) Mobile Outlook10) Emerging Trends11) Recession Impact
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Labels: Facebook, internet trends, Mobile, Online Advertising, social media, social networks, video, widgets

As read on TechCrunch yesterday morning,
MySpace is finally getting ready to pull the trigger on its long-awaited platform for developers. Starting today, programmers can sign up to register for the MySpace API program, which will go live on February 5th. The APIs will allow developers to create social applications for MySpace much like they can already for Facebook. The platform will be compatible with Google’s OpenSocial platform, meaning that applications written for OpenSocial will work on MySpace with a few minimal tweaks.

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Labels: MySpace, opensocial, social media, widgets

I recently met Tariq Krim, Netvibes Founder and CEO. The company has just come out with the next gen of their personalized homepage Netvibes Ginger. This is a private beta release of the service; general availability for all users is expected in mid-Feb.
As described on the site, with the beta, users can “create and personalize a netvibes Universe page just for yourself or publish one for your friends, family, everyone! A Universe is your very own personal dashboard that’s updated live directly from all your favorite Web services (email, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, More»

Labels: personalization, web 2.0, websites, widgets

Talk about portable widgets is not new. After all, 2007 has been proclaimed “Year of the Widget” by Newsweek. Though what I intend to discuss here is more about portability aspects and efforts in this direction rather than about widgets themselves. One of the early entrants in the market was Knofabulator (remember anyone?) which was bought by Yahoo. Then it seemed that they didn’t know what to do with it and rebranded it but added no extra functionalities. A few days back it was in the news that Yahoo was releasing version 4.5 of its Konfabulator widget. The new More»

Labels: Eric Schmidt, google, Mobile, web 2.0, web 3.0, web applications, Web Apps, widgets, Yahoo, YHOO

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Labels: opensocial, Web Apps, widgets

Maka maka. It’s official! Google’s platform agnostic API OpenSocial is live. Per its Product Managers:
“OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it’s built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don’t have to learn a custom programming language.” (like Facebook’s proprietary ftml maybe?!)
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Labels: gadgets, google, social media, social media marketing, Social Networking, social networks, web 2.0, Web Apps, widgets

Google Gadgets was the topic of discussion for Jeff Huber, VP of Engineering, at Google in a presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit. Jeff explained that gadgets are representative of the programmable web. Gadgets are being created using rss, html, flash, and css and that gadgets are open, easy, mashable, packable, portable, and embeddable. He went on to say that gadgets serve to disaggregate the web and are socially distributed.
There are 20,000 gadgets on over 100,000 sites and a billion are served each week via syndication. There are also gadgets being embedded in gadgets eg. Google Maps. According More»

Labels: gadgets, google, Mobile, web 2.0, widgets

HP has just announced that it will be making it easy for you to print your customized content from the web. This is part of HP’s Print 2.0 Strategy to offer internet users new and enhanced printing options to control what they print and how they print it. HP has partnered with high traffic sites like Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live Spaces, and Disney.com to offer this improved print capability. HP plans to deliver this via Web 2.0 technologies such as those developed through an acquisition of web-based app, Tabblo, and others.
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Labels: Blogs, Facebook, online services, Print 2.0, Print 2.0 Flickr, user experience, web 2.0, widgets, Windows Live Spaces

Speed is everything. Especially in the ultra competitive, information rich web environment where users are overloaded and are willing to allocate only so much time to your site. So, design for speedy websites. Speed of download of pages, speed of access to information, speed of execution of commerce, etc.. Speed speed speed! If you’ve got a high traffic or an e-commerce site, speed is especially important. So, notwithstanding Marion Jones’ steroids, here are 10 tips to help your sites load like they’re on steroids.
1. Keep it simple In many ways, Google has mastered More»

Labels: ajax, speed, web 2.0, widgets