Gadgetism.org > Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools
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[Official Google Webmaster Central Blog] The biggest improvements are probably for those of you with more than one site: when you add a new tab of gadgets, your gadgets will now default to the site you were viewing when you added them to your iGoogle page. Additionally, gadgets now retain settings as a group, so if you change the site for any gadget in a group, the next time you refresh that page, all the gadgets will show data for that site.
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[Dennisakin's Weblog] Google AdWords Gadgets is part of the future of Online Advertising: and where …and then it shows you the chairs that are in stock (you can select the colors, etc) and if your interested - it takes you to the buy page for that chair.DooleyVacations - They're a travel site for Ireland and Scotland Vacations - they could/should do Google Gadgets that ask you if you want to go to Ireland or Scotland, put in a data, and show the cheapest price. If you like what you see you go onto the site and start booking.None of these ideas is actually that exotic, or even imaginative - they do require a shift though…. because the medium of online advertising is evolving rapidly, as are people's expectations of Search Engines and Online Advertising. In fact, a Google Gadget that supplies some of this information along with an SURL for a Second Life environment where you can experience the ad, might be one way to integrate Online Advertising and Second Life (or other 3D Virtual Worlds) We've entered a new stage of online advertising where just sticking up a PPC ad is not going to cut it anymore - that's my point….the handwriting is on the wall.Let's take it up a notch and project ourselves in the future by one year. In one year - you could actually find people that are experts in coding Google Gadgets and are sought after just for that - or companies that specialize of tying in backend databases with a Google Gadget ad. Meanwhile, Google decides to not only go full blown with Google Gadgets, but also creates API's for Social Media networking (which it is kinda moving towards doing now) and allows you to embed the Gadgets all over your site and expands the capabilities. If you know that today……
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[The Library Media Center @ MLWGS] Library gadget for iGoogle: A few of you have already asked how to get the MLWGS gadget for your iGoogle home page. All you need to do is click HERE.
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[Continuous Learning & Development] Top Ten iGoogle gadgets: iGoogle.com versus Switzerland (igoogle.ch): time gadget made it also to the 7th place in Switzerland. Can we conclude that time is of a lesser importance in Switzerland. Maybe I should try this one and just pick someone from Switzerland randomly from the telephone book and call him to ask the question what time and date is it.
[librarianinblack] iGoogle Gadgets, Library Style: If you haven't explored the possibility of creating iGoogle Gadgets for your library (little widgety things that users can put on a customized iGoogle homepage), then check out iGoogle Gadgets @ Your Library, a presentation by Ed Metz .
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[Google Mini Apps] Sports Grumblings MLB Fantasy Forecast Daily Rankings Gadget: Google Gadget Description: Daily Fantasy Baseball rankings courtesy of SportsGrumblings.com. Author: Sports Grumblings, LLC. Add to iGoogle | Add to your webpage | View Source | About Author.
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[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2008: Improvements to iGoogle Gadgets for Webmaster Tools, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog; March '08: Best Search/Marketing Posts, Small Business SEM;
[Leancode] Using gadgets outside of iGoogle: If you’d like to set up some reminders and email them to a friend (or set of coworkers) who use iGoogle, that’s easy. Just get the gadget set up like you’d like to share it, and select “Share this Gadget”
[Paddy Power BLOG] RSS - Really Simple (Content) Sharing”¦: Weve also created a Horse Racing Google Gadget. In one place you can see the list of upcoming races, todays steamers (horses that have had a recent price drop), todays Non-Runners and a list of races with early prices.
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[Voidstar: blog] What's happening at OpenSocial: They already had a gadget spec aimed at iGoogle and wanted to compete with Facebook. But Orkut and iGoogle weren't getting the publicity and traction that Facebook were getting so they played the politics card and turned it into The World vs Facebook in the hope of creating a critical mass of App developers and Container developers that could compete.
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[Quick Online Tips] 10 Best Google Gadgets For Your Blog: Though you can Google gadgets to your iGoogle page, Google Desktop, Blogger, and Page Creator, its even cooler to show off Google gadgets on your own site. There are some very cool gadgets out there, and here are some of my top picks in .
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[Google Mini Apps] Equestrian Blog Rankings Gadget: Google Gadget Description: Read and rate equestrian and horse related blogs. Add your own blog to our directory. Author: Brett Jackson. Add to iGoogle | Add to your webpage | View Source | About Author.
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[Joe Kraynak's Amazon Blog] iGoogle Post-It Notes: I checked out iGoogle the other day and discovered what I believe could be the perfect solution - an iGoogle gadget that displays a tiny notebook right on my Internet Explorer Home Page.
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[Flog: The Official Fluid Blog] Widgets and Gadgets: Is Email Marketing Dead?: Frankly, the separation between email and the web is becoming more and more dramatic as websites become more advanced. Given the massive range of email clients (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail…the list goes on and on) the prospect of significant strides in email technology are pretty bleak.
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