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Articles about widgets: November 22, 2008

Sprint: Plug into widget overload

by Iyaz Akhtar on Nov 17, 2008 at 08:24 PM

Sprint Mobile Broadband promotion
Sprint is all over the place.  They just lost 1.3 million customers, they’ve got their CEO on television yammering about technology, and now they’ve unveiled this thing.  What is it? 

It is Sprint’s promotion of its mobile broadband service featuring over 30 widgets.  At random intervals, a woman’s voice will say things like, “Feel free to touch it.“  You can listen to music, mess around with some of the widgets just by clicking on them like the cuckoo clock and be inundated with all kinds of information that you don’t need.

It’s actually a pretty cool way to waste a lot of time.  Does this make you or I want Sprint mobile broadband?  Not really.  It does remind me of Jarvis in the “Iron Man” movie.  I think I’ll go watch that.

See it at Sprint via UneasySilence.

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iGoogle users furious over design changes

by Sue Walsh on Oct 21, 2008 at 12:22 PM

igoogleGoogle launched the redesign of its popular iGoogle portal last week and the complaints began almost immediately.  Users are upset with the new look and furious that the redesigned interface was sprung on them with no prior announcement. 

The interface allows users to collect web “gadgets” such as map and weather apps, organize RSS feeds and aggregate info such as news, sports and GMail.  The revamped interface includes a new “canvas” view that allows gadgets to be displayed full screen and new navigation bar.  Find out what else has changed after the break.

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Hulu makes it easier to watch TV online, offers configurable widgets

by Robert Nelson on Jul 28, 2008 at 09:33 PM

Hulu has just introduced a series of widgets, and while personally I have never really been a big widget fan, these seem of a little more interest to me.

First off they are not just desktop widgets, although they will work in Vista Gadgets, they are also able to be embedded in sites such as iGoogle or Facebook and they even offer an iframe code so you can place in in a page of your own choosing. With that you could in turn create you own “private” Hulu entrance page.

The new Hulu widgets also offer a wide range of features, everything from the obvious watching of video to being able to view or add to your current queue and even checking the recently added and current most popular videos.

There are four options to choose from which include the Summer Widget, Show and Movie Widget, Picks Widget or the customizable Player Widget. Click the read link below to head on over to Hulu to check out the full range of options, or keep reading to check out the Player Widget in action…

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Google’s net reach broadens with their “Lively” take on “Second Life”

by Jodie Andrefski on Jul 10, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Google Lively

Net giant Google just revealed their plans to release their version of living in a virtual world with the online 3D social arena “Lively.“  Unlike the program “Second Life”, Lively allows users to enter “their world” via IE or Firefox after the initial download and installation of the program. You can make use of integrating the Internet in several ways, bring in your photos or videos that you have hosted online, email your friends inviting them to join, or use the special pre-written widgets to embed your Lively area on your blog. Currently it doesn’t work with MySpace, they are still working on that one.

“It’s integrated with the Internet. It’s not an alternate destination,“ said Niniane Wang, Google’s engineering manager for the project. “Our intention is to add to your existing life.“

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Sony opens up Mylo Labs, create your own Mylo widgets

by Robert Nelson on Feb 26, 2008 at 04:45 AM

Sony Mylo Com-2

When Sony first announced the Mylo Com2 during CES, they also announced the upcoming availability of Mylo Labs. The labs will allow users to join the developers community and create their own personal widgets that they can then share with other Mylo users.

The Mylo Com2 comes with a few widgets pre-installed to include Google Search, Facebook Notifier, My Contacts and YouTube. In addition to the opening of the Mylo Labs, Sony will also be adding other “official” widgets on a regular basis.

Currently there are some additional widgets available for download to include a calculator, world clock and to-do list. The Developers page will be opening in March for you to begin creating your very own.

Read [SonyStyle]

 

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