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By: ShowYourself Updated to v1.1 » Dustin Bachrach Blog

ShowYourself Updated to v1.1 » Dustin Bachrach Blog — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:10:04 +0000

[...] to the ShowYourself Widget. The first version was released a few days ago to lots of good reviews (Paul, Mashable, Digg). If you aren’t familiar with ShowYourself, it’s an easy to design [...]

By: ShowYourself Updated to v1.1 » Dustin Bachrach Blog

ShowYourself Updated to v1.1 » Dustin Bachrach Blog — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:10:03 +0000

By: Beach

Beach — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:21:15 +0000

Hmm… I guess I see your point. It’s hard to take the marketing hat off sometimes. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the “Wink Me” thing… that’s one of the things I’m considering removing or at least just keep it part of the other profiles and not treat it any differently.

We want to make the widget as simple as possible, but perhaps we can make some of the promotion a choice.

Show your interests, display the people search box, etc.

Thanks for the feedback Paul.

I appreciate it and will let you know how it goes.

-beach

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:54:46 +0000

@Beach – I know that many widgets are “advertisements” and feature a link to the site or a “made by X.com” but when referring to the wink widget when I said blatant advertisement I was referring to the integration of a wink search box and everything. Most widgets don’t go that far to have their logo, that user’s tag cloud, a search box for that service, a line about that search (people search by Wink) and then finally a line about the widget (make your own..).

^ a bit overkill I think.

By: Beach

Beach — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:33:02 +0000

Hey Paul,

I’m a bit curious about what you mean about the wink widget being a blatant advertisement… (thanks for mentioning it though) It’s a widget. most widgets require an account and have promotion. You need a flickr account to have a flickr widget, a box.net account to have a box.net widget. Twitter has a widget… They all promote themselves. I guess I’m not following.

If there’s one thing in particular that you would change about the Wink widget, I’d love to hear about it. I respect your opinion.

Also the Wink widget allows you to place in any URL to any profile, blog, user group, community, etc. that you wish to promote for yourself. As many as you wish. The Wink widget also has three versions. A totally customizable HTML/JS version, a Flash version, and a flat HTML version that will work on MySpace and other sites that do not allow JavaScript and/or Flash links out.

Anyhoo… that’s all. Keep up the good work.

beach

By: Terinea Tech Tips

Terinea Tech Tips — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:14 +0000

Now if I can could download it as Vista Widget that would be great. I’m looking for further ways to slow down my vista machine, widget is one way!

By: Show Yourself Widget at Not So Relevant

Show Yourself Widget at Not So Relevant — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:20:03 +0000

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By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:23:24 +0000

OK, I’ll have to try it and see what the fuss is about, thanks for the info.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:18:22 +0000

@Andrew – it’s slow because it was on digg frontpage and del.icio.us popular. The point is to have a personalized widget with your information on your blog so your readers can find you on other services.

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:57:12 +0000

Man that site took foooorever to load. So, I thought the point of a widget was to have cute little icon-links to your stuff ON OTHER WEBSITES, and this is still on his own website, which is what I meant (I didn’t mean YOU, as in only Stammy would use this). It seems like kind of a roundabout way of just making a list of links with little icons next to them. I’m sure I’m out of the loop on this though, there must be something I’m missing!

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:48:44 +0000

@Andrew – http://laughingsquid.com/ look in the sidebar. He’s got the Wink version of this. He’s the type of person that would use this.

By: Montoya

Montoya — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:00:20 +0000

Eh, I’ll pass… I already have links to my social networking accounts at the bottom of christianmontoya.net, and I only share the ones that I really want to share (like, Facebook isn’t there).

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:57:59 +0000

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use this, other than yourself, but it’s still neat.

Paul, your face icon keeps reminding me of this Aphex Twin album art:
http://www.last.fm/music/Aphex+Twin/Richard+D.+James+Album

Not as freaky though!

By: twitter guy

twitter guy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:09:29 +0000

Paul,
YOU are the man…I get wait to get back from my client meeting and check this out. Hey you are a fellow twitter so donâ€™t forget to check out: twitterami

Find local twitters here: http://www.twitterami.com

Itâ€™s not perfect but itâ€™s the best I could do in 8 hours!

By: Ash Haque

Ash Haque — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:26:16 +0000

Looks good, simple output and very easy to create. Probably going to give this a try

By: Ralph Dagza

Ralph Dagza — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:24:47 +0000

I think i use the same username for everything

‘ralphdagza’

except for online banking