Ahmed Nuaman

builder of internets ~ developer of dreams ~ tamer of Dachshunds

Posts Tagged “widget”

• Publishing My Gadgets

  Thursday, May 14th, 2009

  I recently re-found (if that’s a word?) widgetbox.com where developers can upload widget’s they’ve created and share them with the community. Now a lot of my work at Google and YouTube has been centered around developing gadgets and widgets using the Google Gadgets API.

  So I’ve taken it upon myself to make sure that I publish all the gadgets I create on there that I’m happy for people to use. One of the first gadgets I created as a little test to see how to use the YouTube API. It’s a simple gadget that reads a feed from Last.fm and then gets YouTube videos. You’re able to put in your Last.fm username and it will get your favourite tracks/artists/albums and then query YouTube for the popular videos. It’s a great way to find new music!

  If you’re interested here’s the iGoogle Gadget link and here’s the widgetbox.com link.

  Just for a quick preview, here’s the gadget itself:

  Tags: Actionscript 2 ~ Actionscript 3 ~ fm ~ gadget ~ gadgets ~ igoogle ~ last ~ lastfm ~ tube ~ widget ~ widgetbox ~ you ~ youtube
  Posted in Actionscript 2 ~ Actionscript 3 ~ APIs ~ Design ~ Development ~ Flash ~ XML

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• The Laurence Mills Brand Channel

  Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

  I was asked by my friend, Laurence Mills, to help him set up a simple micro site where he could upload shorts and showreels. I convinced him to have a YouTube Brand Channel rather than creating a web site and it getting lost in the ocean of the internet.

  Looking at his work and knowing what he likes, I created a nice and simple grunge and worn style background. I then got him to put his set up his playlists so I could implement the 3D Carousel Gadget I created for YouTube.

  It took a while to convince Laurence the beauty of using YouTube over a micro site, but he’s pleased with it now and hopefully it should drum up lots of exposure for him and his work, check it out:

  

  Tags: Actionscript 3 ~ brand ~ carousel ~ channel ~ cover ~ coverflow ~ flow ~ gadget ~ grit ~ grunge ~ shorts ~ showreel ~ tube ~ video ~ videos ~ widget ~ worn ~ you ~ youtube
  Posted in Actionscript 2 ~ Actionscript 3 ~ APIs ~ Design ~ Development ~ Flash ~ Photoshop

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