Archive for the ‘widget’ Category

Snap Preview improves

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Snap Preview has taken onboard all the feedback and revised their widget. They let you customise the look of the widget but more importantly the widget can be off by default and the user has to turn it on.

Nice one Snap, this allow those who like your service to keep using it while not annoying the rest of us. Thanks.

(Thanks to Chris Gallagher for the link.)

Root Worms

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Root.net has released a handy little widget that displays your attention trust data, in this case your click trends. Top clicks, gainers and losers as you can see below.

This is a lovely idea as it allows people to passively show what they are interested in. You don’t have to do anything extra. Just put the widget somewhere that people can see, have your Attention Recorder on and browse.

There is one problem with the widget though. As you can see my top “click” is pagead2.googlesyndication.com which I assume is some Google AdSense service and is not something I have ever actively clicked on. Next is BlinkList, GMail, Google and BlogLines. Those are all services that I use all day but are not terribly interesting to anyone else. You really don’t need to know I use GMail all day, it is my main email client.

The widget needs a filter list so that I can filter out these common sites and let you rather see the new sites and pages I am paying attention too. Hopefully the Root.net team can implement this.