June 23, 2006

get your own gapingvoid widget

The gapingvoid widget has arrived. You can get yours here.

Feel free to add it to your blog sidebar, website, or wherever. Thanks.

Kudos to Paul Farnell at Salted.com for designing it.

[UPDATE:] The widget now comes as a Netvibes module. Thanks to Victor Cerutti for building it.

[UPDATE:] Here are some add-ons to the widget I'm working with Paul on:

1. RSS feeds [obviously].
2. Making it compatible for Typepad [Thanks, Anil, for the pointer].
3. Making it compatible with Wordpress [Does anybody know anybody at Wordpress who can help?].
4. Giving people a choice of widths: 100, 150, 200, 300 and 400 pixels.
5. Perhaps also having a desktop widget for both Mac and Windows..
Hopefully have them up in the next day or two.


[UPDATE:] Also, if I ever put advertising on it [not really planning on doing so, but you never know], it'll be on the pop-up bit, and CERTAINLY NOT the wee bit that goes on the user's sidebar.

[SUNDAY UPDATE:] Paul and I are still working on the widget, so expect some improvements in the very near future. Also, if you have any ideas how to improve it, let's hear 'em. Obviously, we want the widget to be as user-friendly as possible. Thanks.

Posted by hugh macleod at June 23, 2006 5:06 PM | TrackBack
Comments

my, that was easy!

Posted by: Richard Carter at June 23, 2006 8:01 PM

Absolutely splendid.

Posted by: steve griffiths at June 23, 2006 9:56 PM

Awesome !!!

Posted by: Dorothy at June 23, 2006 10:34 PM

Kool! You're now 'live' on my blog. Kinda classes the place up, don'tcha think?

Posted by: Harry Joiner at June 24, 2006 2:04 AM

any chance in someone developing a dashboard widget? THAT would be awfully cool.

Posted by: michele at June 24, 2006 4:52 AM

Might this be a product of the Gilmore Gang? Badass.

Posted by: Paul McEnany at June 24, 2006 5:55 AM

Great work, read this site every day.


Michele, for a widget see
http://www.steve-lacey.com/gapingvoid

Posted by: Gareth at June 24, 2006 1:29 PM

Actually, Paul, Paul Farnell and I first talked about the widget thing back in summer, 2005, but it didn't go anywhere.

When the subject came up again on the Gillmor Gang it re-lit the fuse.

Posted by: hugh macleod at June 24, 2006 1:30 PM

fantastic piece of kit, thanks hugh et al...but is there a wordpress plugin for those of us not hosting our own blogs (and don't have access to the html code?!)....

Posted by: Ed Lee at June 24, 2006 8:59 PM

Excellent! Just what I needed to jazz up my IP service :)
Thanks, dude! Very generous of you!

Posted by: Lea at June 25, 2006 12:27 AM

Alright, now let's show Paul the TypePad Widget docs... it's super easy, and then TypePad folks can add your illustrations with one click. :)

Posted by: Anil at June 25, 2006 9:55 AM

Thanks, Anil.

Ed, yeah, we're working on Wordpress, too.

Also, if I ever put advertising on it (not planning on doing so, but you never know), it'll be on the pop-up bit, and CERTAINLY NOT the wee bit that goes on the user's sidebar.

Posted by: hugh macleod at June 25, 2006 3:01 PM

By WordPress, do you mean WordPress.com (and similar)? I see no reason why this widget wouldn't work on traditional WordPress... does anyone have it working on their WP blog?

Posted by: Andrew at June 25, 2006 8:11 PM

Wodress.com - No luck I'm afaris, just paste the widget script into a new page and no luck. Guess it enfringed their coding policy.

You should be able to round this quickly with an RRS feed though for the short term.

Posted by: cyesi23 at June 25, 2006 9:49 PM

stunning - love it Hugh!

Posted by: steve clayton at June 25, 2006 10:53 PM

Great idea, bad implementation.

The widget should be based on rss so that it can be extended and used along with any publishing system/service, but i guess that should be on the way as i write.

Regarding the source, you are using Flickr to serve the images but there is no link back to their site (the photo page actually).

This is just a suggestion, I still think it is a great idea.

(willing to help ;)

Posted by: marcoss at June 26, 2006 9:22 AM

The RSS is on its way, Marcos... as I already specified ;-)

Posted by: hugh macleod at June 26, 2006 9:25 AM

I need this source in simple html to include in my free wordpress blog. WP doesn't support javascripts :(

Posted by: demigod at August 25, 2006 2:44 PM