We’ve long said, and proved, that UWA works on all major widget platforms – you know the drill: Netvibes, Apple Dashboard, iGoogle, Opera, Vista, Live.com… But there is one more that deserves to be as well known: blog export.
The ability to work on blogs, and for that matter on any website, has always been part [...]
It’s been a few days since our cool Developers Meetup in Paris, where we announced a bunch of new releases that are of importance mostly to you, dear developers!
A proper blogpost has already been published, summing up these releases, and most importantly the new netvibes.org website. You’ll find a lot of information over there, but keep [...]
A question has been recently asked on the Developers Forum, which might warrant a longer answer: “How should we handle the release of our widget?”
I’ll expand my answer into a longer “development cycle of a UWA widget” of sort…
Development
UWA widget should be built by following the documented guidelines - which are also available as a single [...]
Netvibes Ecosystem presently contains more than 200 000 items, among which some more 100 000 widgets – which can look a bit impressive to new UWA developers wanting to make their mark in there, and get their own widgets to many user-pages.
Fortunately, Ecosystem does not solely rely on a search engine to help users find [...]
Super Tuesday is (quite literally) right around the corner, and real-time information is where widgets can shine. Indeed, user androostevens understood the need, and submitted no less than 4 Primaries-related widgets.
These widget rely on data from AOL News, which has built a dedicated Elections page. They cleverly mix AOL’s Flash applications with a UWA drop-down [...]
The Netvibes Ecosystem has its share of search widgets, mostly because they’re easy to build: make a test request in the original search site, write down the search URL, build it into a widget and make that widget open a new page with the search string neatly placed into the search URL.
This is nice, since [...]
Most of you have come to Netvibes for the global widgets, the all-in-one start-page with all your everyday services at your fingertips. And that’s cool, but there’s more to the Internet than Yahoo!, Gmail, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube, y’know?
You might not be aware of this, but Netvibes is not one start-page, but many start-pages: [...]
One of the requirements we insist on for developing UWA widget is to use the UTF-8 character encoding – and when I write “we insist”, we really mean it.
It’s not that we find other encodings uncool – really, ISO-8859-1 is a nice fella, and had Ken Thompson and Rob Pike not found themselves in front [...]
Last August, we introduced the Facebook widget, a concentration of tight JavaScript code which ties your Facebook profile to your Netvibes personal page, allowing you to view your Facebook notifications and friends.
Since then, it has proven to be one of the most successful external app in Facebook’s Desktop application directory, being 4th in both “Most [...]
Having the ability to get your widget to work on many platforms is one excellent thing, of which we are very proud, but we are also aware of the fact that most users of a given platform look for widgets on that platform’s central widget repository/directory.
Even if Ecosystem is the best place to submit [...]
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