Archive for November, 2007

Mac Dashboard, Enhanced Facebook & OpenSocial Support + More

Monday, November 26th, 2007

This latest
update, which went live on Wednesday night - just before Thanksgiving
- brings about a number of great additions to the yourminis platform.

  • Mac
    Dashboard Support - You’ll see that we’ve added Mac Dashboard as one of
    our syndication options.  The "copy" panel lists the Mac Dashboard on
    all of our widgets, and if you’re running Leopard, all you have to do
    is click on the icon and run the file to see the widget of your choice
    running in your dashboard environment.
  • Enhanced Facebook
    Support - We’ve done a number of things to improve our support for
    Facebook.  First, we’ve created an "edit" page, for those of you that
    want to reconfigure your widget in a dedicated area, outside of your
    profile page.  Next, we’ve added a "Gallery" page, which will allow you
    to see all of our featured widget, as long as they’re also configured
    to be Facebook applications.  Finally, we’ve added API support to allow
    developers to write to the "Feeds" system when actions are taken within
    their widgets - this allows the widget to be much more viral in nature,
    if used appropriately.
  • Support for OpenSocial - Although the
    containers that have implemented OpenSocial are still getting their
    bearings straight, we have already implemented an "OpenSocial" bridge,
    which allows developers to create their application once - and the
    widget will be smart enough to know if it’s operating in the context of
    OpenSocial or of Facebook.  This makes development for these networks
    that much simpler and faster, while still leveraging the benefits of
    the networks.
  • SEO Tags - We’ve enabled an administrative
    option for our partners to allow them to input whatever HTML content
    they’d like, which will be copied with the widget via it’s embed code,
    as it moves from one network to the next.  This is a great way to add
    to the branding of the widget, and also allows for an SEO opportunity.
  • Regular
    Expression Blacklisting - Some of our media partners have indicated
    that they have a large number of sites that need to be blacklisted, and
    unfortunately typing all of them in would not be efficient enough.  For
    this reason, we’ve allowed for administrators to disable widgets from
    appearing on sites via regular expressions.
  • Additional MXP
    Support - Initially, our MXP Flash Plugin for development only worked
    on Windows XP.  With this latest release, the new version of the MXP
    will work with Windows Vista and with the Mac OS.  If you’ve tried the
    MXP on those platforms previously, please make sure to try again with
    the latest version.

Of course we managed to sneak in a few bug fixes as well.  As always, let us know what you think in our forums…

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Lunch 2.0

Monday, November 12th, 2007

We
wanted to thank everyone for the awesome turnout at Lunch 2.0 this
week.  We have over 70 people attend in what is shaping up to be a
growing San Diego web community.  Thanks again - lets keep the momentum
going with more and more social events to bring this community together!

A personal thanks to Andrew Warner and Edward O’Connor for
organizing the event.  You can see some of the pics from the event
below…

http://www.lunch20.com/2007/11/08/san-diego-now-has-a-growing-lunch-20-community-too/

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Highlights on our latest partner widgets…

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

It’s been a while since we’ve blogged about some of the widgets that
our partners are creating, so we wanted to take this opportunity to do
just that.

First, MTV has created a widget for their Virtual MTV site.
This widget allows you to take part in the latest happenings, watch
inline video content - and you can switch from one world to another
with the click of a button.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/mtv/mini:vmtv6′,’vmtv’,'300′,’250′,’9.0.17.0′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”width=300&color=0&uri=yourminis/mtv/mini%3Avmtv6&skinnum=0&height=250&p=1&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’vmtv’);

Next, for some comedy relief, check out the Comedy.com
Daily Jokesters widget.  The widget also plays inline video and allows
you to navigate to your favorite type of humor, in a range of different
categories.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/comedy/mini:comedy’,'comedy’,'310′,’260′,’8′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”height=250&width=300&xheight=260&xwidth=310&lasturl=&uri=yourminis%2Fcomedy%2Fmini%3Acomedy&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’comedy’);

Make sure to check out the Film.com
widget that brings you everything you need to know about movies and all
things entertainment.  The widget will cycle through the latest movies,
the top 5, reviews and general movie news.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/real/mini:film’,'film’,'300′,’250′,’9.0.17.0′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”width=300&height=250&sbview=0&color=0&uri=yourminis/real/mini%3Afilm&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’film’);

And if you’re into reality TV, this Survivor widget from CBS is critical.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/CBS/mini:survivor’,’survivor’,'300′,’400′,’9.0.17.0′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”width=300&height=400&color=0&uri=yourminis/CBS/mini%3Asurvivor&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’survivor’);

Now that baseball season is over, make sure to track your Football teams with this widget from Fantasy Control.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/fantasycontrol/mini:fantasyfootball’,'ffootball’,'385′,’370′,’9.0.17.0′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”width=385&fullView=1&height=370&color=1509376&uri=yourminis/fantasycontrol/mini%3Afantasyfootball&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’ffootball’);

Finally, check out the AOL MovieFone widget for the upcoming movies, items playing in theaters, showtimes and more.

var so = new SWFObject(’http://www.yourminis.com/Dir/GetContainer.api?uri=yourminis/AOL/mini:moviefone’,'moviefone’,'300′,’250′,’9.0.17.0′,’#f’);so.addVariable(”FlashVars”,”width=300&height=250&color=13356990&uri=yourminis/AOL/mini%3Amoviefone&”);so.addParam(”wmode”,”transparent”);so.addParam(”allowScriptAccess”,”always”);so.useExpressInstall(’http://ct.yourminis.com/swfs/expressinstall.swf’);so.write(’moviefone’);

Enjoy!

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