10 Facebook Tabs to Add
Over the past month, Facebook has not so smoothly transitioned third party content from boxes to tabs on your Facebook profile page. This is…
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Articles tagged "Widgets"
Sun, 12 September 2010
Sun, 1 August 2010
Facebook Widgets FAIL
In the sidebar of your Facebook profile, below information about you and your friends, you can place widgets (a.k.a. "boxes"…
Tue, 16 February 2010
Gigya's Gamble: The Feed Will Surpass Search
As Internet users, we are becoming increasingly dependent on our social networks for a number of daily activities. We communicate with…
Thu, 4 February 2010
Top 10 Web Widgets
Widgets are mini web applications that you can insert into your website and/or social networks. They're a popular way to add interesting…
Fri, 1 May 2009
BookGlutton Widget: Embeddable Book Club for Your Blog or Site
BookGlutton, a site launched in January 2008 to allow socially-enhanced online book reading, has just launched a nifty little widget. Now…
Thu, 19 February 2009
Facebook Launches Commenting Widget
Facebook launched its first social widget for use outside of Facebook's own site today: the Comments Box. The Comments Box is a comments…
Tue, 16 December 2008
PostRank Releases Awesome New Top Posts Widget
We love Canadian startup PostRank here at ReadWriteWeb, but today the company has really outdone itself with the release of a powerful and…
Tue, 9 December 2008
First iGoogle Banking Gadget Released By Fidelity
Fidelity, one of the world's largest financial service institutions, has just launched the first iGoogle secure banking gadget for use by…
Embed Whole Seasons of Hulu Shows with SplashCast
In today's world of DVRs and online video distribution, "prime-time television" is rapidly becoming a meaningless term. Every minute of…
Thu, 13 November 2008
IM Coming to Popular Mechanics, Seventeen - Can Chat Save Old Media?
Hearst Magazines Digital Media Web sites, including Seventeen.com and PopularMechanics.com, are rolling out Instant Messaging…
Sat, 2 August 2008
"Operation Aborted" in IE7 Because of Sitemeter
Imagine waking up and your site is inaccessible for no apparent reason. If this happens, site owners could spend a ridiculous amount of time…
Tue, 20 May 2008
Another Way to Measure Electoral Clout: Watch the Widgets
Even though last night's big contests in Kentucky and Oregon ended in a split decision, with big wins for both Senators Barack Obama and…
Thu, 31 January 2008
OpenSocial or OpenGadget?
Steve O'Hear (who edits our digital lifestyle blog last100) has an interesting post on his ZDNet blog that questions whether Google's…
Wed, 28 November 2007
Yahoo! To Take Web Widgets to the Desktop
Yahoo! tonight announced the release of the latest version of the Yahoo! Widgets platform, version 4.5. For developers, the platform…
Tue, 27 November 2007
Ticketmaster Unleashes the Widget for Its Nefarious Agenda
Ticketmaster, the formerly IAC-owned events behemoth, went from large to small today, launching an affiliate widget program. Blogger Rex…
Thu, 2 August 2007
Platform Wars: Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget
In a cheeky move, Netvibes has released a Facebook widget. Both Netvibes and Facebook are leading Web platforms for widgets (i.e. mini web…
Sun, 17 June 2007
Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right
When you think of widgets you typically think of web 2.0 companies. Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us were among the first services with widgets and…
Wed, 9 May 2007
World Wide Web of Widgets
The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in…
Tue, 8 May 2007
RateItAll Launches Read/Write Widget
RateItAll, a social network based around online reviews and opinions, has released a new distributed rating widget. It enables users to…
Sun, 24 December 2006
Read/WriteWeb Christmas: Widgets, not Cheese
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus 2006 was a year of many interesting Web happenings and 2007 is looking like another…
Tue, 14 November 2006
ClearSpring enters the widget space with a developer focus
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. We have written extensively about widgets here at Read/WriteWeb because widgets…
Mon, 7 August 2006
Apple enhances widgets - Dashcode and Web Clip
Engadget is providing superb coverage of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference, currently in progress in San Francisco. I'll zero in…
Thu, 3 August 2006
Gadgets being promoted on Windows Live Spaces
With the launch of Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform, Windows Live Spaces (formally MSN Spaces), there has been an…
Tue, 1 August 2006
World of Widgets: Google
Widgets (aka gadgets, modules) are mini web apps that you can plug in to a webpage or site such as MySpace, or a personalized start page…
