Go Global Gadget ^™

We’ve put together a small project that shows the light map and the night lights of the earth. It can be found at Earth Light Map.

Here is a small sample:

eBay has written about Twibler on their developer community blog:

Special thanks to Laurel Kline.

It’s been done and there are many sites that do this but we wanted to add our two cents to the market. We wanted to make it simple and easy. Check out

What’s great about this tool is that it will crawl your entire website for one low price…. FREE. Reports are generated via email so all you need to do is enter the website to crawl and your email address. It’s even optimized not to pull down data files like Word Documents and PDFs so as to save bandwidth though the links are still checked.

The dot is an index of the Global Consciousness Project. It is the real time analysis of their data. This site downloads their data once a minute and runs sophisticated probability functions to find the coherency the random numbers are that are generated by the project. The theory is that global human thought changes the way the random numbers are generated and thus captures the unity of thought across the world. The new website can be found here at the GCP Dot. Here is the web enabled version of the dot:

This is the iGoogle gadget version and the Apple Dashboard Version:

We recently developed an Apple Dashboard widget for Worldlabel.Com. This was a fun one to make and is now available as an iGoogle gadget and a Dashboard widget. You can see them both below. The iGoogle gadget is a live version.

Install in iGoogle.

Download the Dashboard Widget.

To find out more info you can go to the gadget info page

The amazing thing about the Dashboard gadget is that it became the Featured Dashboard Widget in the Dashboard Downloads section of Apple.com. It was featured the day after it was listed. Here is a screenshot of the event:

This new image gadget is truly artful. We created it for Destination 360 to show of their beautiful image gallery. They’ve had a lot of success with their theme: Las Vegas. Their gadget is really interesting because it adapts to the size of the gadget. In nearly all other gadgets the image either doesn’t fit in the gadget or there is wasted space around the image. This technology dynamically resizes the image to fit in the gadget so there is no wasted space and no overhang. Here it is in action:

We created a new flash version of Ladybugs. These stay in a gadget. It’s possible to add this to MySpace or Facebook. (Version 1 Ladybugs are on the whole page and can’t be embedded on other websites.) Here is the gadget:

While there are other Astronomy Picture of the Day gadgets, we thought we could bring something unique to the table: The image that resizes to your gadget. There is no guessing or images that slide out of view with a smaller window.

One of the great product advertisements we put together was for Sharper Image. They wanted to show off some of their products over the 2007 Christmas season and we were there to help them with their advertisements.

Last year we here at Go Global Gadget LLC were privileged to create an advertisement for Netflix.

This Adobe Flash Google Gadget Ad was run on many high profile websites from Oct 11th 2007 to Oct 18th 2007 to promote the Netflix Promotion Campaign called Netflix Now Playing Featuring Dana Carvey. We converted the video from High Definition TV mp4 into the exact size seen in the gadget ad. This was to reduce the size (width, height, quality, and file size) of the video for accessibility and thus allow more users to view the ad. We also maintained the 16:9 aspect ratio while having space for all the other elements of ad. There is even a button in the ad for adding the gadget to the users’ homepages. This adds a viral nature to the ad itself.

To help reduce their company overhead we hosted the gadget, the gadget ad, and the video. 4,000,000 ad views were expected over the week.

The Google Gadget Ad platform was utilized to measure the interactions of users and the gadget to test its effectiveness. Also, the Google Proxy Caching was used to reduce bandwidth consumption on the hosting server.

There has been a new release of Global Conscious. This new beta 7 version has the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Paging of Private Messages
• Integrated User and Message search
• Help page (in the forum)
• Geolocating messages that are not the most recent
• Follow and Unfollow function now work on the Account page, Friends tab
• Replies now show geolocation

We put this utility website up as a service as we here at GGG have sorely needed it. It comes in very handy at times!

Another of our popular gadgets is the Butterflies gadget. These little Monarch Butterflies fly around your page, even landing on your gadget title bars. (That’s a good place to rest).

Add Butterflies to your iGoogle homepage

Once again this is an inline gadget with that has been reduced in importance in the iGoogle gadget directory.

The sirgle most popular gadget is our inline gadget: Ladybugs. They crawl around ON your page. They can’t be shown here but you can click on the link and add it to your iGoogle page. As of this writing there are 329,074 users and growing every day. One of the latest features has been the various colors of the ladybugs.

Add Ladybugs to your iGoogle page

One of the major problems with iGoogle is that these “inline” gadgets aren’t the same priority as the regular gadgets. In fact, these gadgets are about 90% less important than regular gadgets. A great example of how Google downplays these gadgets is by not listing them in their “Most Users” category. It should be on page eight but, alas, it’s not there. Apparently not all gadgets are created equal.

We’ve added a thing called the Price Tweet for eBay buyers to our Twibler.com website.

Sellers put the html in their item listing and the buyer click it thus taking them to the Price Tweet page. From there they enter their Twitter username and the trigger price. When the item price passes the specified price it will send a reply tweet directly to your Twitter account. As the end of the auction approaches the website will grab the prices more and more to keep you in the loop.

You can now follow our Twitter Twibler account