Are you checking out the iPad’s big, mostly empty Home Screen and wondering where the iPhone’s Weather, Stocks, Clock, and Calculator apps have all gone? Are they missing in action, simply unfinished for now, or like Kevin Fox of Fury.com seems to think, could Apple be planning on turning them into Dashboard-style Widgets?
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Clearspring, whose AddThis sharing widget is viewed more than 50 billion times per month, tells us that shares about Apple-related news are up more than 600% today. The massive volume spike is illustrated in the chart below:
It’s even more pronounced when you look at it on an hour-by-hour basis:
These numbers only represent shares that took place via the AddThis widget, which is common on blogs and news sites. For other types of sharing like retweets, Facebook shares, and Diggs that take place natively in social apps, I’d imagine the spike was even more pronounced. We should have some more stats on that later on.
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Last month we wrote about Trefis, a new financial site that lets you tweak your stock predictions by adjusting variables in a company’s business model, depending on how you think different segments of the company will perform. These predictions are plotted out on attractive interactive charts, but until now those charts were all housed on the site’s homepage. Today, Trefis is launching support for widgets, giving bloggers and financial experts the chance to share their adjusted stock predictions with the world.
CEO Manish Jhunjhunwala says that the early adopters for the widget will likely be bloggers, freelance writers, and columnists who regularly write about business and financial content. He also notes that the site has gotten requests from a broader audiecne of writers who often write about a particular company (e.g. an Apple fan site).
Skribit, the startup that is trying to help cure writer’s block, has opened its doors to the public after being in beta since its inception at Startup Weekend Atlanta in November of 2007. Yes, that’s a really long time to be in beta, but Skribit is now ready to show all of its glory to the public.
The main idea of Skribit is quite simple — to cure writer’s block as well as help bloggers and other website owners receive suggestions and topics to write about. It’s a problem that every blogger has. Coming up with original story ideas is hard. So it’s great to see a service try to address the problem and hopefully “cure it” through crowdsourcing. Skribit is offering TechCrunch readers 100 free pro accounts, if you use the code “techcrunch” when signing up.
Make Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes for Thesis Users.
Style commentators last blog post as displayed by the CommentLuv plugin. This plugin is also compatible with Thesis.
If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. “Home”) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blog”). The plugin allows you to add categories as links in a submenu.
The Taxonomy List Shortcode plugin adds a shortcode to your WordPress installation which enables you to display multiple unordered lists containing every term of a given taxonomy. The list can be displayed in one to 5 columns – custom styles are provided.
With Revisionary in place, the meaning of the “edit_others” capability shifts to grant revision submission rights if the owner lacks the corresponding “edit_published” / “edit_private” capability.
Web Worth Blog Value Calculator
Web Worth Blog Value Calculator is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog’s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog
Website owners can add a bit of HTML to their head that says where their oEmbed provider is located. This allows consumers such as WordPress to embed things from their website without WordPress specifically knowing about their website before hand.
This is a plugin toolkit that helps developers write plugins faster. It consists of several classes which handle common tasks:
Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.
Provides an interface with Online Leaf, which helps to reduce the amount of energy required to browse the internet, by making websites greener.
Add geocoding and Google maps to your WordPress blog
The plugin has option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code. Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.
The Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress empowers web developers & web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner. Uses Google Maps.
Twitter style Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Twitter Integration (wp to twitter) plugin. All in One plugin for Twitter Goodies.
Since the official launch of our integration between CrunchBase and Facebook Connect in November, we’ve seen 19% (5,087 out of 26,850) of our edits come from newly registered, non-anonymous users. Even after the predictable spike around the announcement, we’ve seen a sustained and growing percentage of our edits coming from these users (see figure below).
As they say, no good deed goes unpunished, so we thought it would be fun to give some credit to those users most actively involved in keeping CrunchBase up-to-date and accurate (apart from our internal team of course – it just wouldn’t be a contest). The top ten startup gurus are now highlighted in the right-hand column on the CrunchBase home page, and you can also view the full list to find out where you stack up. We’re planning to completely open up registration (without requiring Facebook Connect) in the near future as well to further broaden the field.
We’re also excited to announce a few new ways for you to keep up to date with the latest CrunchBase data.
It looks like AT&T could finally be getting its first Android powered handset. While this may be good news for those on the network that have been hankering for some Android, there are some odd things going on here. The Motorola Backflip/Enzo (name still in question) eschews the hinge mechanism we’re all familiar with. It’s basically backwards so that when closed, the back of the phone has the keyboard exposed.
The phone runs on Motorola’s MotoBlur implementation of Android 1.5 similar to the T-Mobile CLIQ. The phone will have a 3.1 inch capacitive display, Wi-Fi, 5MP camera, and that same old Qualcomm 528Mhz CPU. The camera is at one end of the keyboard and faces the user when the phone is open. There’s also apparently a touchpad on the back of the phone (opposite the keyboard) that can be used for no-look scrolling.
The Backflip/Enzo takes the inadvisable step of ditching all the Google applications except for Maps. That’s right; this Android phone looks like it will ship with no Gmail, Gtalk, or even Google Search. There is a Yahoo search widget in place of the standard Google one. In an almost complete disconnect from reality, a Google login is still required to use the phone. It’s also loaded down with the usual AT&T software. No word on pricing or release date yet.
So, can an Android phone succeed without all those Google apps? Check out more pics here.
azoblue writes with news that following MySpace’s acquisition and shutdown of imeem, independent artists who sold their music through imeem’s Snocap music storefronts (on MySpace and other sites) won’t be paid what’s owed them. More than 110,000 artists are believed to be affected. The crux of the problem is that MySpace acquired only a certain portion of the assets that were imeem — “the domain name and certain technology and trademarks” — and not imeem’s outstanding debts, including the money imeem owed to artists under the Snocap relationship. According to the article, some artists have been owed money for more than a year. “Napster creator Shawn Fanning co-founded Snocap in 2002 to let artists sell their music through an embeddable storefront widget. At one point, the service was marketed as the exclusive way for artists to sell music on MySpace. Imeem bought Snocap last summer. But because MySpace left most aspects of Snocap out of its acquisition of imeem’s assets, all 110,000 or so of those storefronts are gone. The server that hosts them is offline and so is the Snocap website.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
This plugin prevents commenters to repetitively post comments into a post. Once a comment shows up (must be approved), the commenter will not be able to post another comment below it – he/she will have to wait until someone else posts another comment.
Create a Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes.
A fully customizable robots.txt virtual file generator. IRSEO creates a highly optimized and secure robots.txt file straight out of the box. Users may choose to enable or disable specific user agents, directories or files using intuitive options, all of which include detailed instructions.
Generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total comments count after posts.
This plugin will show your twitter tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. Please add <!–wp_twitter_goodies–> to any page/post under HTML section to see awesome Twitter Goodies.
Allows you to display Most Popular eBay items and auctions in real-time, directly on your blog. You can also display eBay items from any particular seller
An elegant and easy way to present your posts on a single page.
Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordPress empowers web developers & web site owners to easily manage and display any set of important stores, products, or other locations on their website in an easily searchable manner.
Grooveshark for Wordpress v1.2.0 is now available for download. The latest version includes optimizations for existing plugin features as well as new features you can use to turn your wordpress blog into a fully integrated online jukebox.
Foodzie’s artisan food marketplace just got some heavy duty engineering talent behind it. The company has hired Googler Adam Sah as its VP of Engineering. Sah is best known for helping invent Google Gadgets, which is used to power many widget-based services like iGoogle and Gmail Gadgets. He later served as a tech lead for Google research, and spent his time before Google at a number of startups.
Foodzie helps speciality food vendors get exposure by giving them a central online marketplace to sell their goods. Foodzie takes a cut of each sale, but the vendors are still left with more than they’d get if they sold their goods through traditional speciality food sites. It’s been a while since we last heard from the company, but CEO Rob LaFave says that things have been going very well. The site has grown from 25 vendors last December up to 250 this year. In the last 30 days it has seen around 85,000 unique visitors. And, perhaps most importantly, LaFave says that revenue for the site has grown by an order of magnitude in the last thirty days.
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