(via here)

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Would be great to be able to aggregate related content on Youtube into a single space, PUN intended.

YouTube have opened it’s API and it won’t be long before you see bloggers, webmasters, using “on the fly” widgets to aggregate tagged based content… . This is not a widget (below) , but imagine if you could aggregate all content on youtube related to keywords “laugh without smiling” (there is allot on you tube of this exercise -no suprise!) into one component and stick that on your blog/site. Pretty powerful I would say….

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Radiohead is banned in our office as it tends to bring the mood down, but sometimes we like to chortle about how young Thom Yorke was a child prodigy kept locked in a cupboard (which is kinda what his voice sounds like when he sings) and also a thumb. Young Thumb Yorke.

(via Mashable)

‘Radiohead is the poster child for web distribution and an autonomous strategy for controlling one’s own destiny (while still making money) as an artist in this day and age. So when we heard about th latest Radiohead “In Rainbows” widget, powered by Clearspring, we decided to check it out.

But given Clearspring’s other efforts to move forward in the widget space, having launched an ad network and other tools for web publishers to extend widgetizing content offerings, what we’re seeing is a standardization of widget features that are widely being adopted by musicians, combining viral sharing tools, self-promotion and easy access to content that can be monetized.’

A little more interactivity please Thom & Co and the ability to upload our fellow Fat dieters, Bon Bon’s really rather good video to Numb.

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Janiak Puidokas just sent me this email:

Halloha,

Has learned to read your will through your eyes? With the
gayatri, or they that are observant of shot at jamadagni’s
car a hundred straight arrows a short time the camel was
deprived of life. The one advantage from the revolution.
another church, eol. Ho! Neptune! Nept. Eolus! Eol. The
seas go faces were as long as fiddles. Oh, worcester! And
everything that would promote trouble or quarrel sastras
according to which one performs the acts large force, and
stationed at the head of the among a waste of empty teacups,
plates, and jampots, none of the seedlings, so far as i
can learn, now we can be married, he said. I shall be able
of their defences Finally, mahomet determined gus and bill
remained and the twoas billy always.

Despite it alluding to poo hole town Worcester and Gus and Bill, neither of whom I know, it’s simply not as pretty as the forthcoming book entitled Secret Weapon: 30 Hand Painted Spam Postcards (more info here)

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According to the Widget Metrix data from November 2007 (the month in which I narrowly avoided killing a hedgehog traversing a highway in deepest darkest Dorsetshire), Bunny Hero Labs clocked up a bunny boiling 16,123,000 unique views for it’s cyber pet widgets.

Techcrunch looks in depth at the statistics, but fails to mention Bunny Hero Labs, which looks kinda odd sandwiched between Google and a whole heap of News Corp. Well on my quest to uncover the Widget of The Covenant I shall endeavour to mention Bunny Labs as much as I possibly can… bunny labs, bunny labs… and have created a pink hedgehog in their honour. I salute you Bunny Labs.

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Yup, I’m back in widget mode and strangely despite knowing I’m marketing a film I’m actually looking forward to and despite thinking I should know better than to be hoodwinked by those clever Paramount marketeers, I’m going to embed it anyway.

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Love is blind, business is screwed and your wife has mis-laid her neck whilst you obsess about a cuboid loch ness monster and wearing pink gloves… it’s what the interweb was made for:

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(via Techcrunch UK reporting from Plugg)

‘Max Niederhofer of Atlas Venture gave a great presentation on how online games are already big and only going to get bigger, especially in the casual games via the browser. Gaming is a 20 billion dollar industry now and 75% of casual gamers are female. Since a 3D version of Flash will come out in 2009 there is now an opportunity for startups to build Flash-based online games, disrupt the ‘printer cartridge’ model of the console market which requires high-priced games to work. Integrating online games with social networks could be a big deal.’

(picture by Robert Carter)

Max and I have never met, if we had, I’m sure we’d have disagreed in the past on subjects such as ‘feminine hygiene’ or ‘verbal dexterity’. But I’m glad to say this time, I’m in agreement with you Max and if Stardoll is the browser’s Barbie then PMOG sounds like it just might be the browser’s Shoe collection.

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If you follow the Fat Man up-chuck you know I’ve developed a fascination with all things ‘widget‘. Wrapped up in all of this small portable hype are open API’s. 90% of Twitter usage takes place outside of Twitter - which is kinda nuts, but wholly indicative of where the web is heading. We want what we want, where we want it, often within the social networks we inhabit or the desktops we decorate or the start-page we stare at.

If the blogosphere is, ‘a frontier town with no lawman (I mean, O’Reilly has a badge on, but no gun and no jail). You can do just about anything you want, but the politically savvy folks tend to arm themselves to the teeth and gang together to protect their property. Everyone else is in the middle of chaos, either fighting blindly for attention or politely asking (by linking early and linking often) if they can join the big Gang.’ (Michael Arrington) . Then the widgetosphere is a deranged pastor coming onto your land and suggesting you open up to your neighbours, give them some rum to take home with them so they tell all their friends what a good shot you are.

Then some fool comes along and claims Rock You, purveyors of every annoying Facebook app you’ve ever been force fed, is worth $400m! Based on user base and absolutely no business model at all.

Whilst my web brethren decamped to Austin for SXSW, I went to the Science Museum with my daughter to attend a lecture on Bubbles (I’m not making this up). I learned a lot about bubbles and molecules, stuff I’d long forgotten. You need just the right mix of washing up liquid and water to create giant bubbles and plenty of huffing and puffing to propel them into the air. Kids love them.

With the Bebo sale and now the crazy valuations for Rock You and it’s competitor Slide, it looks like the mix is about right to create an almighty bubble.

All it takes is one little prick to pop it.

Herewith my scratcher courtesy of Rock Star, enjoy it’s simple ability to enrage anyone with a brain cell and to forever make you curse the sound of a rusty penny being chucked into an old tin which is as much as the sound designers at Rocky You can manage by way of special effects.

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In my head I’ve confused hearing Big In Japan with the Duke of Edinburgh and tartan slippers and maybe a babysitter called Rita, so why not mashup (which is modern for ‘confuse’) some pretty typography that is literally Big In Japan, with er… the actual Big In Japan, except it’s less of a mashup and more of a side by side, on top of each other.

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