Thoughts on the beta of the BBC’s site redesign

The BBC have published a beta release of their newly redesigned homepage.

The new design has clearly been influenced by personal start pages like NetVibes, iGoogle and PageFlakes. You can select from a pre-defined list of BBC widgets to include on your homepage - the stuff you’d expect: News, Sport, Weather etc. Read more…

Tom wrote this on 16.12.07 – 5 comments
It's filed in the Design, Strategy, Widgets box

Widgety Goodness digested

We attended, networked, listened and learnt… Brighton hosted the first ever European Widget Conference yesterday and what a show it was. We walked, talked and generally digested these new fangled things called Widgets and afterwards no one could be in any doubt about what they are, what they do and what they mean to us in this brave new online world. Read more…

Ruth wrote this on 07.12.07 – 3 comments
It's filed in the Events & conferences, Interesting, Widgets box

I Can See Clearly Now - a comparison of widget platforms from a developer’s perspective

I was recently handed the monumental task of comparing the major players in the wonderful world of widget platforms. No mean feat, I can assure you, this turned into a mammoth undertaking of epic proportions (well, that may be stretching it a tad ;-). This is new and (relatively) unchartered territory and, although undoubtedly a new and exciting area of social media to be involved in, this meant it was tricky to nail down and collate the huge volumes of data and information into something palatable and useful that would enable us to deliver a whole host of wonderful widgets (be they destined for the web or desktop) using the right platform for the right client, and for the right price. Phew! Read more…

Steve wrote this on 22.11.07 – 17 comments
It's filed in the Development, Social media, Widgets box