Presentation given on 20/3/2009

1. By Aaron Tay 20/3/2009 An introduction to the use of widgets by libraries (Theory)

4. Searchplugin http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/webtool/srchplugin/searchplugin.htm

5. Custom toolbars I Custom toolbars are packages of toolbars designed to be customized for specific websites or organizations. Most of these custom toolbars require no programming or scripting skill to configure. Example 1 : Conduit toolbar

12. Examples

13. Sample precreated widget http://www.youtube.com/sharing

15. Creating widgets based on Scopus article search results http://info.scopus.com/htmlfeeds/

16. Creating widgets based on Scopus article search results

17. Final result appearing on webpage

19. Some precreated widgets to add to our subject guides

21. Alternatives http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/webtool/widgets/sharewidgets.htm

23. Alternatives

25. OTHER WIDGETS CAN BE ADDED LIMITED ONLY BY YOUR IMAGINATION!!!

27. Creating your own widgets

28. Creating your own widget NOT SIMPLE, REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF JAVASCRIPT, XML, FLASH PROGRAMMING ETC.

29. Using "universal" widget maker

30. RSS Feed widget

31. Search widget

32. Widgetbox http://www.widgetbox.com

33. Netvibes http://eco.netvibes.com/login

34. Dapper http://www.dapper.net/

35. Iwidgets

36. Sprout http://sproutbuilder.com/ (not free)

38. Widgetbox

39. Netvibes

40. iwidgets

41. Dapper

42. Sprouts (not free)

43. SELF MADE WIDGET BLOGS e.g. Blogger, Wordpress WEBSITE iGoogle Netvibes MyYahoo Facebook MySpace Opera Windows Live Apple Dashboard Vista Sharepoint Pageflakes Nexus Google desktop Bebo Wiki.nus (Confluence) Adapted from Guus van den Brekel

44. Where widgets can be added Via 1. Widgetbox , 2. Netvibes , 3. Iwidgets 4. Dapper 5.Sprouts Websites Blogs Social networking sites Start pages Desktops Mobile Other formats Html (Flash/javascript) WordPress 1 Facebook 1 3 5 Netvibes 1 4 5 Vista desktop 2 Iphone 2 3 Json 4 Sharepoint Blogger 15 Myspace 3 5 Igoogle 1 2 3 4 5 Apple dashboard 2 Android 3 Icalender 4 Wiki.Nus 1 (confluence) Typepad 1 Bebo 3 5 Pageflakes 1 4 5 Google desktop 4 Palm 3 CSV 4 Livejournal 1 5 Multipy 1 5 Live.com 2 Opera 2 YAML 4 Ning 1 Nexus (NUS endorsed)? Yahoowidgets 2 3 Googlemap 4 Hi5 3 My yahoo 5 Friendster 5

45. On webpage

46. On Blogger

47. Adding widgets to Social networking sites

48. On Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=556068025&ref=profile

49. On Myspace http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=394134895

50. On Bebo http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=8404708977

51. Adding widgets to custom homepages

52. On Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/aarontay#General

53. On igoogle http://www.google.com/ig

54. On Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/

55. In Nexus http://nexus/default.aspx

56. On NUS.wiki (confluence) http://wiki.nus.edu.sg/display/~clbtcha/Sample+widget+on+nus.wiki

57. On Opera

58. Widget on desktop

61. Start Put RSS feed into widget maker e.g. Widgetbox Content available in RSS? Use screen scraper e.g. Dapper Further processing (aggregation, filtering, ranking) required? Use yahoopipes, postrank etc End No No Yes Yes

64. Microsoft Popfly

66. Sample widget created by popfly Sample widget – Carrousel of book jackets from recently added Economics books

68. Yahoopipes source http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=02d2b020817aa3511b6647f33a631fd5

69. Yahoopipes example http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=02d2b020817aa3511b6647f33a631fd5