Keynote presentations providing an industry overview and introducing new products to the Widget Summit audience.
- Announcing SpringWidgets
- Arlo Rose: Konfabulator
- Conversation with Max Levchin
- How widgets transformed MyBlogLog
- Introducing the Yahoo! Application Platform
- Web Widgets
- Widgets on Mobile
- Announcing SpringWidgets
- MySpace has been the most successful aggregator of widgets to date, connecting its tens of millions of users with content across the web. Widget-based businesses have launched on the back of MySpace, providing tools of expression for a growing online community.
read more... - Arlo Rose: Konfabulator
- What is Konfabulator? Whatever you want it to be. In 1998 Arlo Rose saw skinnable MP3 players and dreamed big thoughts. What if you could skin any information you want to see and have it readily available on your desktop? In 2003 Konfabulator was released for the Mac desktop, unveiling JavaScript widgets executed within a shareware application. Konfabulator pioneered many current uses of small snippets of information exposed as widgets. Konfabulator was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 and is now known as the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
read more... - Conversation with Max Levchin
- A conversation with Slide founder and CEO Max Levchin on the current state of the widget industry. Slide's slideshow widgets are seen by over 134 million viewers per month (comScore, June 2007). Slide also authors three of the top four applications on Facebook. Top Friends ranks your friends list and has attracted over 17.5 million Facebook members. FunWall adds some of the most popular features of Slide.com, photo and video customization, to the wall of almost 9 million Facebook members. SuperPoke lets almost 10 million Facebook members send virtual hugs and other expressive "pokes" around their network. Slide is at ...
read more... - How widgets transformed MyBlogLog
- MyBlogLog successfully leveraged widgets to turn a web analytics company into a web community. The original MyBlogLog product tracked a website's most popular outbound links, providing blog authors with a better understanding of their most popular content. These site overlays provided interesting information about aggregate site behavior, but did not connect communities of individuals across multiple blogs. MyBlogLog widgets display faces and location of your blog's last 5 visitors directly in your sidebar. Your blog community steps outside of an anonymous IP address and instead becomes a visible member of your community. In this session MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier will ...
read more... - Introducing the Yahoo! Application Platform
- In January 1994 Jerry Yang created Yahoo! to connect a growing Web audience with the best sites and content published every day. The technology of the mid-90s limited Jerry and his co-founder David Filo to a list of links navigating visitors to new destinations and frequently updated contents. Today's Yahoo! empowers hundreds of millions of monthly visitors to create their own web experiences inside their personal web dashboard, instant messaging clients, e-mail, and even a personal profile. Yahoo! has connected its massive user base to the outside world for the past 14 years and is now starting to bring the ...
read more... - Web Widgets
- Web widgets allow publishers to syndicate data to any website capable of interpreting dynamic data presented through browser-based renderers such as JavaScript, Flash, or Silverlight. This keynote will address the current state-of-the-art in web widgets and how your company can embrace the widget web.
read more... - Widgets on Mobile
- Nokia will outline its vision for mobile widget development on today's handset and cellular provider environment. Mobile devices feature a smaller screen size, limited interaction capabilities, and often metered data access at slower speeds. Yet the mobile phone has become the primary computing device of individuals around the world, providing the advanced functionality to stay connected no matter where your day make take you. Today's mobile widgets are based on standard web technologies you may already know such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In the future these same technologies will enable developers to access device-level data such as an address ...
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