Archive for December, 2005

So you want your content on the Google homepage.

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

No problem!

Google now offers “widgets”. All you have to do is create a widget that displays your content and then get people to add that to their personalized Google homepage.

What is a personalized homepage? Click on “personalized home” at the top right and you’ll see that you can add predefined content pretty easily. You’ll see that you can click on “Add Content” on the upper left and the last option is “Create a Section.” If you have something that displays content using an RSS or ATOM feed (a blog, for example), just enter that feed and you’re good to go.

But let’s say you want a custom widget. You can enter in the widget’s URL and Google will handle the rest. You can try with this one:

http://fstxblog.com/recentnews9.xml

These are recent posts to this blog, generated in a way separate from its RSS feed. (This is not particularly important–it’s a toy example designed to illustrate an idea.)

You can add just about anything to the front — web application front ends, graphics, news feeds, portions of webpages — you dream it, it can be done. Oh — and we can help. :)

Awesome Business Idea: Fashion Handbag Rental

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Fashion Handbag Rental — Just heard this on NPR. Very interesting.

Bag, Borrow or Steal

Bags to Riches