Think Rich has a very valid point: a lot of the current work is based on repackaging news, weather, tv schedules, mapping ideas, or odd little widgets which are little more than no-need-to-have toys.
All the myspace and blogging kind of web 2.0 sites are little more than the naff homepages that people put up in the late 90s. The speed and ease of publishing have changed to give wider access to non-techies, but it hasn't done a lot more than that. Am waiting to see a truly innovative step in web 2.0 Finn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules I developed a few - a currency converter that got accepted into the Konfabulator gallery, and my favourite - "Swear With Steve" (which simply turned the volume up on your PC, swore very loudly, then returned the volume to normal - a useful tool for developers), which for some reason didn't get accepted. (There's another version of this - "Lie With Steve" which pulls a random inaccuracy from Dave's Web Of Lies) :-) However, I've never found a widget that I'd use all the time. Most of them seem to replicate some system function (clocks are a prime example - I have one in the bottom right of my screen, why do I need one that I have to search for when I've got a load of windows open across two screens?) or (like the currency converter) do a job I need once in a blue moon. The widget concept always struck me as a good idea, but the created widgets seem to be a prime example of form over substance... Just my 2p... Cheers, Rich. On 9/26/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering what widgets people have played with in the past? > > There seems to be so many and little interop between them all. > > From my understanding Netvibes and Google widgets seem to be the most > straight forward to develop for? But Yahoo (still prefer Konfabulator as a > name) and Apple (dashboard) have the biggest percentage of the market. I > guess this will also change once Vista launches and has settled in. > > Any thoughts? > > Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith > Sent: 26 September 2006 02:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules > > > ah, perfect! Just what 'm after, thanks. > > I think 'm going to have a crack at doing it as a Yahoo Widget first, if > that's successful I might look at making a better weekly schedule. > Cheers, Keith Living under the Jackboot Australia is merely an island of > Antarctica, and of no further significance > > > Mario Menti wrote: > On 9/24/06, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Keith wrote: > > > The problem 've run into is that WS schedules don't seem to provide a > > > feed of any sort. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could get around > this? > > > > The BBC Web API - > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/ - should prove > > very useful to you, the links you want are probably something like: > > > > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getLoc ations&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple > > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.channel.getInf o&channel_id=BBCWrld&format=simple > > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getPr ogrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&limit=2&detail=schedule > > > > (the last giving you the schedule, I'm not sure how far in advance) > > > > Hope that's helpful. :) > > -- > > ATB, | http://www.dracos.co.uk/ | > http://www.bbc.co.uk/homearchive/ > > Matthew | http://www.traintimes.org.uk/map/ > > > Hi Keith, > > you may also be interested in my "what's on now/next" modules at > http://bbcmodules.co.uk. They're based on the Web API mentioned by Matthew. > The modules don't show anything beyond now/next though, so won't show you > what's on later today.. > > BTW, Matthew's example of the API schedule call above, without the "limit" > parameter, will show you the schedule for the current day (i.e. up to > midnight today GMT): > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getPr ogrammes&channel_id=BBCWrld&detail=schedule > > Cheers, > Mario. > > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
