Widgets for Web 2.0

Vote Now: 10 Tips for Mobile Web Design !

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:19:00 +0000

How to create a mobile version of your website? Do you need to optimize your current website for mobile devices or design a completely new website? Do you need to worry about different platforms, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry, Linux, Brew, Android, and Nokia? What resolution, what screen size you should target, and what is this PPI anyway? How to design for maximum number of users and devices, in the least amount of time? In this session, mobile web usability expert and author of "Beginning Smartphone Web Development", Rajesh Lal will discuss ten pragmatic tips, for designing website for mobile devices.

Interested ? VOTE for it at Mix 10 (1. Add to ballot,2. Submit ballot)

http://tinyurl.com/10TipsMobileWeb

Silverlight Fun Badge (Widget)

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:37:00 +0000

Click on the badge to start the fun !

Free Fun badge

Get the Fun Badge: Copy the following code to embed the Fun Badge in your page

<div id="funbadge" style="Width:120px;Height:120px;">
<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="source" value="http://silverlightfun.com/Samples/FunBadge.xap"/>
<param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
<param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40624.0" />
<param name="background" value="White" />
<param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
<param name="initParams" value="StartValue=0,BackgroundColor=White" />
</object>
<iframe style='visibility:hidden;height:0;width:0;border:0px'></iframe>
</div>
<a target="_blank" title="Get Free Fun Badge at http://silverlightfun.com" href="http://silverlightfun.com/2009/11/silverlight-fun-badge-is-here.html">Free Fun badge</a>

Ten Tips For Designing Mobile Widgets

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:35:00 +0000

Presentation on designing Mobile Widgets at Maemo Summit, Amsterdam Netherlands, 11th October 2009

Ten Tips For Designing Mobile Widgets 2009 Maemo Summit Amsterdam

Silverlight Slideshow Widget

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:57:00 +0000

Add Custom Parameters and you are done

value="SlideWidth=600,SlideHeight=500,Image1=Images/slide1.png,Image2=Images/Slide2.png,Image3=Images/Slide3.png,Image4=Images/Slide4.png"

No Silverlight

Different Size with Different Parameters

value="SlideWidth=400,SlideHeight=300,Image1=Images/i1.jpg,Image2=Images/i2.jpg,Image3=Images/i3.jpg,Image4=Images/i4.jpg,Image5=Images/i5.jpg,Image6=Images/i6.jpg"

No Silverlight

Download here

RSS / Atom Feed Widget

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:29:00 +0000

A Feed Widget is one which takes an RSS / Atom feed and create a widget which can be embedded in any web page, blog and social profile.

We have a new Feed Widget which create code for a widget which can be embedded in any web page. All you need is your feed URL in the form of RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 format.

Here is how it looks like for a puzzle blog TrickofMind.com

Try it out here

Daily Puzzle Widget

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:51:00 +0000

If you like puzzles, here are two more widgets for www.TrickofMind.com A website with 500 plus unique puzzles and trick questions.

Get Daily Tricks Widget

Copy & Paste the above code, this is what you will get

Get Top 5 Tricks Widget

Copy & Paste the above code

Beijing Olympics - Five Web Widgets & One Vista Gadget

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:05:00 +0000

NBC Top News

Comcast Olympics Widget

Olympics Coverage NewsGator

SI.com Olympics 2008

WidgetBox Sidebar Gadget for All Olympics - Download Now

Hungry for Olympics ?

The Widget-Box Gadget just got widget-ized with Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Get latest updates, news, videos, slideshows from USATODAY, NBC, COMCAST, and more.

Check out the Gadget at http://widget-box.blogspot.com/

Download the Gadget here

USA Today Olympics

Add Rating Star Widget

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:43:00 +0000

If you ever wanted to add Voting capabilities to your webpage http://AddRatings.com has a great widget which works on almost any web page.

With some great customization options, Give it a try !

The rating widget which you see in the bottom of this post is from http://addratings.com

Top Widgets Landscape

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:17:00 +0000

Top 10 Web Widgets for your blog

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:55:00 +0000

Whether you have a personal web page, a blog or a social profile here is a list of most popular web widgets.

Top 10 MUST HAVE Web Widgets for your online page.
(sorted alphabetically)

1. Bookmark This - http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription - Widget http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge - http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor - http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog - http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget - http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update - http://Twitter.com
8. Playlist Video Widget - http://Youtube.com
9. Web Poll Widget - http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening - http://iLike.com

1. Bookmark This

- http://Addthis.com

2. Email Subscription

- http://Feedburner.com

3. Picture Badge

- http://flickr.com/badge.gne

4. Recent Visitor

- http://MyBlogLog.com

5. Search Blog

- http://search.msn.com/siteowner

6. Snapshot widget

- http://Snap.com

7. Twitter Update

- http://Twitter.com

8. Video Playlist Widget

- Login to http://Youtube.com and then goto http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists to select the embed codefor the playlist

9. Web Poll Widget

- http://PollDaddy.com

10. What I am Listening

- http://iLike.com

Add your favorite here ...

Creating a Widget using Microsoft SilverLight and Popfly.Net

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:29:00 +0000

Here is a series of videos provided by Popfly.net to create widgets using SilverLight

Video: PopFly 30 Second

Video: PopFly 3 Minute

Video: Popfly in 15 Minutes

What is a Web Widget ?

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:37:00 +0000

A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.

A widget is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers.

Its a snippet of HTML code which is available from the the website which hosts the widget. you can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page.

Overview of a Web Widget

The snippet of code which makes a Widget can be a JavaScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.

What are Web widgets (Video Series )

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:31:00 +0000

A series of videos by RobinGood

Part 1.

Part 2.

Part 3.

Part 4.

Part 5.

What is Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Rajesh Lal) — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:00:00 +0000

Web 2.0 is all about the following and more...

1. User Centric and User Oriented
2. Web Services, Web API's
3. Widgets, Gadgets, Mashup's
4. Blogs, Feeds, Wiki's, Tagging, Podcasting
5. Social profile
6. Social bookmarking
7. Client rich technologies like CSS, HTML, DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, XHTML, REST, SOAP

Here is the Web 2.0 Cloud image and a basic Video which somehow describes it in a visual way.

What is Web 2.0 Video

by flexbeta

Interested ? Checkout 10 more popular videos on Web 2.0 from industry gurus like Eric Schmidt, Tim O' Reilly, and a number of startup CEOs and executives. Also see, how to Create a Web 2.0-Style Logo