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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:41:34 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Adobe AIR at Widgipedia</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,187,438#msg-438</link>
      <author>interwanderer</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello there,

There is a new mobile widget distribution channel availabe.
www.gloweme.com

maybe you can add it too here?

greets,]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:41:34 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Adobe AIR at Widgipedia</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,187,291#msg-291</link>
      <author>Your Widgipedia Team</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the heads up, Ernesto!

We have updated the platform name from Apollo to Adobe AIR. Yes, we know that there are no AIR widgets in the gallery at the moment, but the platform looks promising so we'll not be deleting it for a while ;)

[b]Your Widgipedia Team[/b]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:54:50 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Web Widgets Are Here!</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,97,289#msg-289</link>
      <author>Ernesto Quezada</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'll give you some feedback:
- when submitting flash widgets it says &quot;the file size must not exceed 10MB&quot;, I think more than 100kb for a flash widget is just a bit too much so I would change the size limit to 500kb at the most!
- the ajax feature to select the sort of widget you want to upload and when you roll over this one expands and the rest collapse is actually not too user friendly; have happened to me more than once that while filling in the rest of the form, by mistake I roll over one of the other options and its annoying to take the mouse again and roll over the one you need... don't worry about making us click one button, we are used to select with a click instead of a mouse over event.

the last thing, when a user comes to our widgets page, he or she sees a thumbnail of the widget but being this web widgets, I guess it would be better if what they see is the widget itself and they can interact with it without the need of clicking on &quot;get widget&quot;

and that's it :D

hey, keep up the great job!

salut]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Say Hello To Widgipedia Profiles</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,200,288#msg-288</link>
      <author>Ernesto Quezada</author>
      <description><![CDATA[two things:
- how about our favourites widgets? I remember the old profile page showed them. 
- something that could be really handy is that if someone leaves a comment on your profile you will be notified via email so you can come and add a reply, otherwise happens what happened to me, I have some really old messages and never replied to them as I didn't noticed them and now might be a bit too late :S

and by the way, RADU!!! check your widgipal requests ;)

salut]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:47:23 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Apollo at Widgipedia</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,187,287#msg-287</link>
      <author>Ernesto Quezada</author>
      <description><![CDATA[last time I searched for Apollo widgets there were none so I guess it is better if you either delete this option or update it as Adobe has changed the name from Apollo to AIR (adobe integrated runtime). I managed to build a couple of things using Apollo (AIR when in alpha) but with the new AIR beta I haven't had luck :( 

hey and don't forget to update the blog ;)

salut]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:42:06 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Apollo at Widgipedia</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,187,218#msg-218</link>
      <author>widgetboy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[cool, [url=http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=11352][img]http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif[/img][/url]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:52:20 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Say Hello To Widgipedia Profiles</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,200,200#msg-200</link>
      <author>Your Widgipedia Team</author>
      <description><![CDATA[As of today, all our community members can have their [b]personal profile page[/b] at Widgipedia!

We bet it's a nice surprise for you guys :), and we wish to thank you so much for staying with us and helping our community grow!

As we said many times in the past, Widgipedia is so much more than just a widgets gallery: it's also a community of widget passionates, a place where people discuss, learn or teach about widgets - no matter if they are developers or widget users. Through the addition of the [b]profiles[/b], we want to offer our community members a way to better know each other, to our developers a way to become known to the community, to our users a way to show who they are, what they like or to ask for a particular widget.

Together with the addition of the profiles, [b]we have also changed our home page[/b] so that the different parts of Widgipedia are now easier accessible. And we think it looks great too :)

As usual, here are more details about what's new:

[b]1. Gallery widget in the new home page[/b]

Our [b]widgets gallery[/b] is now itself a widget in the home page. You can click each thumbnail from the gallery to view the details page of each widget. The old gallery is also available - just click the &quot;Widgets Gallery&quot; link in the top navigation bar.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=74[/img]

[b]2. Seach bar in the new home page[/b]

The bar full of icons at the bottom of our new home page enables you to search for a particular platform or widget type with just one click on the correspondent icon.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=76[/img]

[b]3. Widgipedia Profiles[/b]

To see other users' profiles, just click the links next to their widgets or the avatars shown in the home page in the &quot;Cool Widgipals&quot; section.

The profiles consist of a few sections showing your account name at Widgpedia, your avatar, your motto, your interests, your &quot;widgipals&quot;, your latest forum posts, your widgets (or favorite widgets) and a section where you can enter any information you want to show to the community about yourself.

To create or edit your own profile, you must log on to Widgipedia then click the &quot;Edit your Profile&quot; button showing at the top of most pages.  Once in the profile page, you can edit each section of the profile in a dialog box.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=73[/img]

To view your profile, from any page click on the &quot;My Profile&quot; link in the top navigation bar.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=77[/img]

[b]4. Widgitalks[/b]

Along with the profiles, you can now exchange public or private messages with the other members of the Widgipedia community through a section at the bottom of the profile page.

To send a message to a particular user, just click the &quot;Post your Message&quot; button in his profile page and have your message recorded in the page. You can choose your message to be public (visible by anybody) or private (only visible by you and by your recipient and invisible for any others).

To reply to a message, just click the &quot;Reply&quot; link next to the message.

The messages are shown in a threaded way - so you can read or reply to them by topic.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=75[/img]

[b]5. The Widgipedia Badges[/b]

Some of our users' profiles are showing one of the two Widgipedia &quot;badges&quot;: the contributor badge and the developer badge.

The contributor badge is automatically displayed to the users who have contributed to our knowledge base through their posts or replys in our forum.

The developer badge is automatically displayed to the developers who have submitted their widgets at Widgipedia.

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=78[/img]

Thank you so much to all of you for helping us build [b]the ultimate widgets resource[/b]! Watch for more widginews soon!

[b]Your Widgipedia Team[/b]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 07:52:51 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Adobe AIR at Widgipedia</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,187,187#msg-187</link>
      <author>Your Widgipedia Team</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Starting of today, Widgipedia supports widgets based on Adobe AIR (formerly known as Apollo) runtime.

It's a long time since we didn't post to this blog, but trust us guys, there are a lot of goodies that we've been working on in this time at Widgipedia and you'll see them very soon on the site!

For now, we're happy to let you know that we have added [b]support for Adobe's AIR runtime[/b]. The support is available both for Windows and Mac platforms.

AIR is a runtime that allows you to run desktop widgets written in Flash. Or, more detailed, AIR is a cross platform runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop rich Internet applications. You can find out more about AIR at [url=http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/]Adobe AIR site[/url].

To upload widgets based on Adobe AIR runtime at Widgipedia, just open our [b]upload widgets[/b] form and select one of the Adobe AIR platforms listed on the right side:


[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?2,file=96[/img]


Thank you so much for loving widgets and for being part of our great Widgipedia community! More news to you soon, folks!


[b]Your Widgipedia Team[/b]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 06:33:47 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Web Widgets Are Here!</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,97,100#msg-100</link>
      <author>Ernesto Quezada</author>
      <description><![CDATA[cool! [url=http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?8,12]at last![/url] :)

By the way, I think the &quot;installs counter&quot; isn't working quite well.
Seems like it adds a number each time a person clicks on &quot;Get Widget&quot;.

How about if the person didn't install it?

salut!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:02:44 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Web Widgets Are Here!</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,97,97#msg-97</link>
      <author>Your Widgipedia Team</author>
      <description><![CDATA[News from Widgipedia: [b]Web Widgets are here![/b]

We have promised that we'd create [i]the ultimate widgets resource[/i], so today we've taken one step closer to this goal by merging the two worlds: [b]desktop widgets[/b] AND [b]web widgets[/b] are all together at Widgipedia.

We know you have waited for them impatiently, so please go ahead and, along with your favorite widgets on your desktop, place your favorite widgets in your web pages! It's a world of widgets, they are cool, they are useful and we love them :)

Thank you for asking us about web widgets, thank you for giving us great suggestions and feedback, thank you for waiting impatiently for this moment together with us - all these helped us more than you'll ever know in getting us here! As usually, we'd love to hear your comments and thoughts about the site!

OK, now let's see what let's see what you can find on Widgipedia starting today:

[b]1.[/b] First of all... [b]web widgets[/b]! Or online widgets, or blog widgets, or whatever you call them. They are hosted in our gallery together with desktop widgets and they are distinctively marked with the [i]&quot;Web ready&quot;[/i] logo:

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=39[/img]


[b]2.[/b] As a developer, [b]to have your web widget available on Widgipedia[/b], it's as easy as saying &quot;upload, configure, done&quot;:

* just upload the code of your web widget (such as the HTML source or the Flash movie) at Widgipedia exactly as you would do with a desktop widget...

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=40[/img]

* ...then optionally specify some parameters for it in the next dialog...

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=38[/img]

* ...and you're done!

[b]3.[/b] But there is more at Widgipedia than just a directory of widgets: we also [b]host web widgets on our servers[/b]. You don't have to struggle finding a place to host your online widget, because we take care of this for you. You just upload the code of your widget as shown above and from that moment your users will get your widget directly from our servers.

We believe it's easier this way. And it costs you nothing :)
 

[b]4.[/b] If you want to [b]install to your own page a web widget[/b] that you saw at Widgipedia, it's as easy as saying &quot;get, configure, copy&quot;:

* click the &quot;Get Widget&quot; button...

* ...if you want, configure the widget from the next dialog...

[img]http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/file.php?0,file=37[/img]

* ... then copy and paste the provided code into your web page and you're done!

[b]5.[/b] [b]To browse only for web widgets[/b]: use the links from the blue (left) bubble at the top of Widgipedia pages. [b]To browse only for desktop widgets[/b]: use the links from the green (middle) bubble at the top of Widgipedia pages.

[b]6.[/b] With the exception that [i]web widgets are installed[/i] and [i]desktop widgets are downloaded[/i], [b]we have tried at Widgipedia to have web widgets and desktop widgets look and feel as similarly as possible[/b]. For both categories you can give feedback, see the number of installs or downloads, browse, etc. Also, forum sections are available to share your thoughts, to find some answers for your questions or to talk about both categories of widgets.

You don't have to learn two worlds - there is just one with two flavours :)

Thank you again for staying with us and helping us build such a great widgets community!

[b]Your Widgipedia Team[/b]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:55:32 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>We're Betta'! :-)</title>
      <link>http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/read.php?2,5,5#msg-5</link>
      <author>Your Widgipedia Team</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we've made it: [b]Widgipedia is now in Beta[/b]!

We wish to thank all our friends who contributed to this: all of you who supported Widgipedia, uploaded or downloaded widgets, sent us great suggestions and feedback, helped building such a great community! And, to anticipate a bit what's below, it's exactly the community what Beta is all about. It's about sharing knowledge, inviting your friends, telling others about the cool widgets you've found (or taking those with you in your Web pages!), writing what you would want to see and finally making it happen together with others like you.

Whew! Now let's talk about each of the new cool things you can find on Widgipedia starting today:

1. Check out the new [b]Community[/b] box in the left section of the site! You can now invite your friends to any Widgipedia page by simply clicking a link in that box. Or, you can click [b]Link to this page[/b] to have the exact page's URL loaded in your browser's address bar. Also, you can tell others about the page by bookmarking it on your favorite sites - such as [b]del.icio.us[/b], [b]digg.com[/b] or [b]blink.com[/b].

2. You can now [b]embed[/b] into your Web pages a presentation of a widget similar to that we're showing in the widget details pages! If you want to showcase a desktop widget (for example in a blog or a MySpace page) simply upload it to Widgipedia and then copy and paste the HTML code from the [b]Widget embed[/b] box to that page. Not only that your page will show a picture and description of the widget, but your users will be able to download it directly from your page!

3. You can embed a link to the widget details, or a direct download link, into your own pages: just copy and paste the links from the [b]Widget page[/b] or [b]Widget URL[/b] boxes to your page.

4. You can now subscribe to specialized [b]RSS[/b] feeds that contain a particular platform or the widgets of a particular user.

5. Another addition is our [b]Widgipedia Blog[/b] - you're reading it :)  You'll find here the latest news, updates and plans - and we'd love to hear your comments about them! Simply tell us what  you think, what you would like to see on Widgipedia, or anything about widgets and our site! Just as the Forum, the Blog is linked from the top menu, as well as from the Community box on the left side;

6. Along with the Blog, we have now also a [url=http://www.widgipedia.com/forum/][b]Widgipedia Forum[/b][/url] with several sections that you would probably want to check out. One of them is [b]Widget Development[/b], where you'll find several exciting topics, mostly addressed to the widget developers:
*   [b]The Widgipedia Tutorials[/b], with various tutorials and learning resources;
*   [b]Widget Libraries[/b], dedicated to building widget or gadget libraries;
*   [b]Widget Platforms Development[/b], where you can share your experiences with any widget platform - or coordinate your efforts to invent a new one :-)
*   [b]Widget Development[/b], which is a general development topic;
*   Another section of the Forum is [b]Widgipedia[/b], where you'll find our team's announcements (like this one) or post your feedback through the [b]Feedback[/b] topic;

7. Finally... our site got wider! :) We know you liked it before, but surely you'll love it from now on too ;)

Many thanks to all of you - we're happy that we can share all these new features with you. We hope that through these we're one step further in building all together [b]your ultimate widgets resource[/b]!

Your Widgipedia Team]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:09:31 -0800</pubDate>
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