Bill,
I made a widget a while back that extracted a saying a day from a
remote server and gave it away. Then they changed the server and it
stopped working.
Sarah has the PicaPod widget that downloads some very cool desktop
pictures and is awesome in it's simplicity yet it does what 'should'
be done in a desktop app.
I think without really thinking about it many here are doing these
things already. What I think is needed is a set of guidelines or
templates like you said. Sort of the way the Revolution Online
scripting conference stacks are similarly following a format BUT for
the widgets it is the actual look and feel that changes and the
template is for the floating and coding and expected behavior of the
widgets when deployed.
I like this topic.
Tom
On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
So go ahead and make is EASIER. Make it obvious. Or at least make
it *LOOK*
easy.
- Make a sample RSS displayer that could be tweaked easy with new
graphics
and a different URL.
- Make something that can play an Internet radio station with some
cool
logos and equalizer effects
- One of the top Widgets is a Calvin and Hobbes fetcher. A guy
called "DMP"
has something that does this for a site called uComics. (But it
doesn't
work.) Get that thing brushed up, gel-ified, airbrushed.
- A little flower that sits on your desktop in K. has received
almost 10,000
downloads! All it does it change color!
http://www.widgetgallery.com/index.php?search=flower
- How hard would it be to write a little search Widget that does
FedEx, UPS,
USPS, Google, Wikipedia, Answers.com, etc., like a couple dozen of
them do
on the K. site?
- A HotOrNot widget?
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