Podcast Ad Service
Posted on 24. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
They’re mostly in the elusive 18 – 34 demographic, and they don’t sit around watching TV. They go online, download the shows and videos they want, and then play them where and when they want. How can you can reach this “asynchronous” audience? Podcasts.
Podbridge provides an audio and video podcast and analytics service with flexible ad insertions and rotations based on familiar demographic targeting techniques like age, sex and location? It works as an iTunes plug-in that gets downloaded and installed when a listener first downloads a Podbridge-enabled podcasts. When the plug-in is first installed, the listener is asked some demographic questions to help target ads. From then on, the plug-in-tracks a podcast’s online reach, frequency and playing time (anonymous), as well as the download count. Podbridge aims to have a plug-in for Windows Media Player as well.
Google AJAX feed API
Posted on 23. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Today Google launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that allows users to develop mashups using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds.
Pageflakes Widgets
Posted on 23. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.
Got Widgets?
Now you can make any Flake a widget. Pageflakes provides a code snippet so you can add the Flake to your webpage, blog, MySpace profile etc.
Mobile Widgets
Posted on 20. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
WidSets is a free phone manufacturer-independent Internet service that multicasts preferred feeds and user-generated content to mobile devices. With it you can get mobile widgets, which are much like web widgets, or gadgets, with traffic alerts, news, blogs, gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads of other stuff that you would normally get through a web service.
WidSets was born out of Nokia Emerging Business Unit and represents a first step in Nokia’s vision of mobilizing the Internet. The WidSets service currently has several hundred thousand registered users and a comprehensive library of over 1200 widgets. WidSets works on a wide variety of mobile phone brands and is compatible on over 200 mobile devices.
If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for they have templates for creating your own widgets. In the Beta stage, you can tweak the look of your widgets, name them, and set their RSS feed address.
Video search engine
Posted on 18. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Blinkx is an advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with over 200 leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together.
Video wall: A cool feature is that you can submit a search query and create a video wall that you can embed it on your blog or social networking site.
Search Term: Web 2.0.
A drawback here is that since the video wall is build in Flash you need to disable your pop-up blocker to launch a video.
BEA’s Enterprise 2.0 platform
Posted on 17. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Blogs, wikis, tagging and other social software have already infiltrated the consumer internet. These concepts are only being embraced by the early adopters in corporate/enterprise computing. “Enterprise 2.0” is the migration of Web 2.0 functionality into the enterprise.
BEA is bringing Web 2.0 tools to the enterprise and they call it En.terpri.se. The new suite consists of 3 components:
Hijax – The solution for ajax accessibility
Posted on 16. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
One of the prevalent buzz-words in Web 2.0 is “Ajax”. A term originally coined by interactive design guru and Adaptive Path founder Jessie James Garrett; Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The idea that without Flash we can achieve “desktop application like” behavior – users can interact without refreshing the page - has become a key design pattern in Web 2.0. Ajax accessibility is a hot topic in the interactive world.
Recent litigation involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) may soon have companies scrambling to increase accessibility.The question is how do you make Ajax applications accessible? The answer is Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax. An approach by Jeremy Keith, author of “DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model”. Jeremy says:
It’s a very simple idea:
- First, build an old-fashioned website that uses hyperlinks and forms to pass information to the server. The server returns whole new pages with each request.
- Now, use JavaScript to intercept those links and form submissions and pass the information via XMLHttpRequest instead. You can then select which parts of the page need to be updated instead of updating the whole page.
This means that screen readers, text browsers, and mobile devices can still access all the functionality without building separate site versions.
Quick and easy online portfolio
Posted on 26. Mar, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
If you work in interactive you need a website to get a job. The biggest challenge is for anyone that’s good is finding time. As interactive pros we are always on, always busy. We’ll Carbonmade is a great ‘temporary’ solution.
The site allows you to make quick professional looking online portfolio in no time. Have a job interview in a few hours? Conbonmade is the way to go.
Make your flickr style logo!
Posted on 08. Mar, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Just for a laugh, check out the flickr logo makr.
Scribd – Better than Adobe Acrobat for posting documents on your website
Posted on 02. Mar, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Techcrunch calls Scribd the “YouTube for documents”. What’s nice is that this free service allows you to upload documents and provide multiple download link formats. Additionally, an added benefit, is if you are publishing whitepapers and other documents to your website it will provide another channel by which your audience may find you. Scribd is a new service but it could become a very useful tool for web publishing. (more…)
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