Clearspring Changes the Game for Widgetizing Web Content :
As social networks and web content become more open and shareable, its been quite amazing to see the world of widgets unfold. What we’re seeing now is solidification of certain widget companies as providing standards for general use, and an increasingly consolidated feature set for both startups and established widget services. So widget companies aren’t just for making widgets, but they’re also widget directories, vehicles for advertisement networks, a source for metrics, and a resource for developers.
That’s the juicy morsel of this nice summary on Mashable about bits of content and applications flowing on the network. Well, maybe one day the neologism will stick… Dave Pollard was the first to use...
Let’s think about this for a while and reflect on what I would call a groundswell of insights :
Apple Dashboard Widgets are made of HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Opera Widgets are made of a little XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Yahoo Widgets are made of a little XML, JavaScript and CSS. Microsoft Gadgets use XML, JavaScript and CSS. iGoogle Widgets are made up of a little XML, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. While I understand that XUL is basically XML + JavaScript + CSS, it’s still foreign to most web developers and designers and it’s not compatible with any other web browser. So why bet on it for the future of your mobile platform? It’s a dead end.
Read between the lines and know you know why we are looking for a Kungfuesque CSS + Javascripter!
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog - Should you trust Facebook with your business?
Leveraging Facebook to get users for your website? Great! Use Facebook to market you website? Sure, go for it!
If you look at history the companies that built on closed - or semi open - platforms have gotten their asses kicked. Build for the open web first, and use these systems as icing on your cake.
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Ok, it’s official, I am now more annoyed by FaceBook than entertained. Not that I am going to stop using it completely. But mark this day, post-facebookism has begun.
And what’s next? Well the same as before, atomization. It’s just harder and longer than the all-in-one-closed-garden solution of FB to do it right, in the open, but we will get there. Google and others might help too.
Take it from a guy that was at the Mozilla 1.0 launch party in Montreal in… summer 2002!
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Insight of the day :
Facebook takes another small step towards openness (…) there are tremendous structural pressures for openness. From a strategic point of view, in the edgeconomy, getting open always and everywhere trumps staying closed. Though Facebook is decidedly evil, and is fighting tooth and nail against these pressures - they are too great for it resist. They are using a bucket to fight the tide.
All of which adds up to a great strategic error. Why can’t Facebook find a working business model? In large part, because it’s focuing on staying closed - when, by getting open, enormous and explosive possibilities for radical business model innovation would be unlocked.
[Via BGSL - Laws of the Edgeconomy: Open Beats Closed]
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After reading on Fred Wilson’s blog about Moodblast I also stumbled upon applescript and php clever twists to update your Facebook status by going the screen scrape route with m.facebook.com… nice! I am also tepted to call this reverse-scraping as the result is not pulling data out but pushing some in. Well, it is the only way to scrape stuff from Facebook too, but that’s not what *this* post is about! ;-)
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Here is my liberal reworking of the insight…
Blogging is the worst form of publishing, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Complete perspective over there at Union Square Ventures.
I tried to meet with Fred Wilson while I was in New-York, but my half-assed attempt was watered down by the fact I was on vacation with my girlfriend and enjoying a little break from work (and mostly offline, too).
Next time Fred! (yeah I know, I know, I am fully expecting him to read my blog and get this personal note and you might think this is a stretch, but you know what? I *really* believe that’s how it works now, hence the title of this post and the somewhat circular reference). Pertineo ergo sum. I hyperlink/relate therefore I exist…
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This is a lazy web request. I got caught this morning in creating a Yahoo Pipe for almost all of my outputs. Quite easy. Except some of the feeds have their output not rendered correctly (shows html tags in the final view). I know it’s an encoding problem. I should be able to fix it. I can view source and know this stuff.
But it’s a sunny sunday morning in suburbia and I just can’t sit here in front of my screen for much longer… So like other problems - sometimes it’s the best way to solve them - just throwing them in a series of tubes and see what happens…
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After the success of Twitter (twitter is the new flickr) and the instant realisation to several thousands of alpha-geeks and creative webheads at SXSW that SMS could be micro-blogging as well as a social command line (and I hereby claim this meme). SMS did not need twitter to catch the heart of the geekerati, but it became a clear demonstration that mobile was a major platform for social app (it’s all about the flow - thanks Stowe!).
Seventh mass media or innovation minefield? As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. I must say that the Kakiloc demo at the last democamp in Montreal opened my eyes on the command line aspect of it all. Their “dot-k-dot” commands instantly invoked for me the terminal culture, the browser location bar as the web command line and...
I asked a question this morning on Nial’s Kennedy blog about widgets on cell phone and I really like the answer I got. I can tell you some mobile widgets are going to come your way in the next few months and I will be to blame!
PS. his syndication session at web2expo was really good too, a key takeaway from that session : do Atom unless you are doing media (audio/video) stuff then do RSS (because of podcatchers and iTunes).
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