ia for tiny stuff: exploring widgets and gadgets
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IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets Martin Belam
IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets
Martin BelamIA Summit, April 2008currybet.net
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IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets Martin Belam
The information stone age
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The (hand) written word
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The printed word
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The librarian era
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The World Wide Web
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"The Widget"
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IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets Martin Belam
Why widgets?
“Users have already made it clear that they want their content, their way. Those publishers locked into the Web 1.0 portal mindset will find themselves losing market share. While it's impossible to project where the market will be in 18-24 months, forward-looking publishers will begin to engage their users with widget technology and move forward with their users”.
Barry Graubart – ‘Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet’http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/2637
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Typical simple widget architecture
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This really is the simple widget architecture
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Introducing 'Nom Nom'
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The Marketing Team widget
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The Sales team widget
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The Technical Team widget
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What the user actually wants…
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If an e-commerce site is like a busy mall…
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…then a widget is a more personal space
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The Sky News widget is flexible
Sky's widget offers lots of functions - but it means that the user has to configure it
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Forbes offer a range of pre-configured widgets
Forbes take a different approach, and basically offer variations on the same basic widget, pre-configured for the user
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Time is an under-used dimension
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Leaving event websites live as an archive is fine
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A 2008 Olympics widget has a specific lifespan
MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST
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Thank your users when the event is over
It costs nothing to be polite.Acknowledge an event is over and thank your users
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Cross-promote if your widget comes to an abrupt halt
Cross-promote another widgetif there isn’t going to be any more content for an existing one
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Mimic a physical environment
For most of the week a sports stadium is empty
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Mimic a physical environment
But it comes alive on match-day
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Give it an inactive state…
If there is no current event, why display anything?
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…and switch it on when needed
Wake it up for matches – just like the stadium
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Easter Eggs
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U23D Widget
U2 fans could unlock hidden video in this widget
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Engage with your audience offline
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Super Furry Animals vote
The widget worked as online promotion for the tour,and as engagement with the fans
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Widgets, widgets, widgets
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IA for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets
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