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Blogthis. Video. Work. Social_software. B. Rejse. Fox Interactive Launches Desktop/Website Widget Platform. Fox Interactive Media will announce a new widget platform called SpringWidgets on Monday morning at the Widgets Live Conference in San Francisco. It is a unique offering in the increasingly complicated widget space, although the desktop portion of it only works on the Windows platform.

Widget platforms today work on websites (see Google Gadgets and WidgetBox) or the desktop (see Yahoo Widgets). Microsoft has a widget platform that will work on the Vista desktop and also on live.com pages. But no one has created a single widget platform that works on most websites as well as the desktop. That’s what SpringWidgets is launching.

SpringWidgets has a few widgets already in the library, mostly showcasing Fox content from including IGN.com, FOXSports.com and MyFox local station sites. I’ve embedded a clock widget below. Each widget can be embedded on a website or placed on a desktop. Pageflakes - The whole Web at your Fingertips! NRKbeta — NRKs sandkasse for teknologi, duppeditter, nye medier. Facebook Platform, One Year Later. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Facebook Platform. We figured it would be a fitting time to take a look at what the platform promised, what it’s delivered, and where it’s going in the future. The summary: Facebook Platform has been a victim of its own success, offering an unparalleled distribution platform that has appealed to both tens of thousands of legitimate developers as well as shoddy shotgun entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck.

Facebook has had its share of missteps, but no matter how much they improve the platform, it is only as strong as its apps (which at this point simply aren’t very good). Facebook Platform launched on May 24, 2007 to widespread acclaim. It was heralded as the “Anti-MySpace”, which had until then been notoriously closed and unhelpful to many application developers. Only four days after the platform’s launch, iLike (then the leading 3rd party app) had accumulated 400,000 users – nearly 5% of all Facebook users had it installed. Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Stra. There are lots of definitions of social software out there, ranging from the clinical (“software that enables people to connect through computer-mediated communication”) to the pragmatic (“stuff that gets spammed”). While doing research for a recent workshop, I came across a useful list of seven social software elements.

These seven building blocks–identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing–provide a good functional definition for social software. They’re also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works. The original list was assembled by Matt Webb (who was expanding on a list created by Stewart Butterfield).

Here’s a brief definition of each element: Not every social software system has all of these, but most of them have three or more. And the most popular social websites implement many of these building blocks, but focus on just one or two. More reading. Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory. Sacred Cow Dung: All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST". « QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "Bad Code is Good Business" | Sacred Cow Dung Home | High-Performance Social Networking - Part II: The Natural Life-Cycle of a Personal Network » March 10, 2006 All Things Web 2.0 - "THE LIST" The most current listings are now available as a continuously updated Open Directory at “All Things Web 2.0 – The Directory” — cgm (08/16/06) Last night I was talking with Bob Stumpel who runs the Web 2.0 Group on OpenBC.

In fact, Vyew is a free, web-based collaboration site that provides a feature-rich meeting room with real-time, whiteboard functionality. Thanks, Fred Posted by: Fred Han at March 16, 2006 06:46 PM.