Monthly Archives: October 2006

Blog Red Badge

Written on October 13, 2006 by timothypost in webwidgets

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Project Red is the ultimate in “social shopping.”
What a great combination of charity and consumerism. The basic gist is that every time you buy one of the “Red” products from a participating company (Motorola, AmEx, Gap, Armani, Converse, & Apple) a percentage of the profits goes to buy anti-retroviral medicine to help people [...]

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Monetize me!

Written on October 11, 2006 by timothypost in webwidgets

Wow! I am seriously impressed with Google these days. Just last week I took my opml file and loaded it into Google Reader. I haven’t missed my beloved NetNewsWire once. The “river of news” format of “All Items” is super smooth and allows me to graze through 100+ feeds in a couple minutes. I love [...]

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Widgetcards

Written on October 4, 2006 by timothypost in webwidgets

Nokia recently introduced a new service called WidSets which enables people to use their widgets on their cell phones. Here’s what Joi Ito had to say in his blog post – WidSets“The Nokia guys showed me WidSets yesterday. It’s a very cool service that allows people to make simple widgets which get sent to your [...]

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Reading Assignment

Written on October 3, 2006 by timothypost in webwidgets

All of us should spend some time reading the following articles and thinking about their implications for traditional media properties and the newly emerging web2.0 models we are all trying to wrap our brains around.

Fred Wilson, Disaggregated Media, June 24th, 2006
Fred Wilson, The Rise of Ad Networks, June 25th, 2006
Rob Finn, Ad Models History and [...]

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Address Book 2.0

Written on October 1, 2006 by timothypost in webwidgets

Take a look at the Smythson address book in the image above. There are only 3 predefined data fields- Name, Address, Telephone. If life were only that easy.
The world in which we live is much more complicated. How many telephone numbers do you have (I have 5)? What about Skype, AIM, MySpace, Facebook? Do you [...]

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