Archive for October, 2007

Sub Account Administration

Monday, October 29th, 2007

As we
continue to bring on large media companies as partners, we’ve noticed
that there’s a tendency for more than one department within the
organization to build widgets on our platform.  Generally, someone is
authorized to view all of the data for all of the widgets that the
company builds, but there are others that should only have access to
their specific widgets.  For this reason, we’ve added the notion of sub
administrators to our dashboard.  The main administrator can now assign
very granular permissions, either on an individual or group basis.  We
think this will be a very useful feature of the platform going forward.

Also,
as an added bonus, we’ve enabled support for our widgets within the
Opera browser.  If you browse our gallery while using Opera, you’ll see
the toolbar change to a "widget" icon:

opera

If
you click on that blue widget icon, you’ll be able to download that
widget and have it live within Opera, even when your on sites other
than yourminis.com.  Pretty cool stuff.

As always, please let us know your thoughts and comments in our forums.  More good stuff is on the way…

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Desktop Widgets are back - and better than before!

Friday, October 12th, 2007

On October 1st, Adobe released Beta 2 of their AIR product.  Just last night, we performed an update which allows any of our AS3 widgets to be run on the desktop via Adobe AIR.

We’ve made it super simple to get the AIR product.  Just click on the "copy me" on any of our AS3 widgets, and then choose the "AIR" option.  If AIR isn’t running on your machine, we’ll prompt you to either start it or to install the product.  Once you’ve installed AIR, you should be able to download any of our AS3 widgets, essentially with one click.

We’ve embedded one of our AS3 widgets below for those of you that want to try running them on your desktop:

For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com

Also, for those of you that just want to install AIR and our widget manager without downloading a particular widget, just click the "Install Now" link below:

Give it a shot and as always, let us know your thoughts…

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Lunch 2.0 is coming to San Diego!

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Host: goowy.com

When: Wednesday, November, 12:05 - 2:00 PM

RSVP: RSVP here

This will be the first Lunch 2.0 in San Diego, so please help us get established by:

Organizing - If you want to be a part of bringing Lunch 2.0 to LA, email me: mail(at)awarner.com

Coming - If you’re in San Diego, join us for lunch at goowy.

Inviting others - If you’re not in SD, but know people who are, please send them this post.

goowy offers 2 products, yourminis.com, a widget platform that simplifies widget creation, distribution, and discovery and the goowy webtop,
a set of robust productivity tools including email, contacts, calendar,
IM, file storage, and more. (And it’s a great company that keeps
supporting the tech community. Thanks guys!)

Upcoming Lunch 2.0s::

  • Tuesday, October 9- H2.0 ZendCon, Burlingame, San Francisco
  • Friday, October 12- Widemille, Seattle
  • Friday, October 12- YellowBot, Burbank, Los Angeles
  • Friday, October 12- Tagged / Netvibes, San Francisco
  • Tuesday, October 16- The Ladders, New York City
  • Wednesday, October 17- Lunch 2.0 D.C., Washington, D.C.
  • Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley
  • Monday, October 22- Oracle, Redwood City, Silicon Valley
  • Friday, November 2 - TBA, Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, November 7 - goowy, San Diego
  • Friday, November 9 TBA, Kirkland, Seattle
  • Friday, November 16 - TBA, Los Angeles
  • December TBA, Waterfront, Seattle
  • Friday, December 7 - TBA, Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, December 12 TBA, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
  • Friday, January 18 TBA, Seattle

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