Go Global Gadget ^™

We’ve developed a lot of gadgets for iGoogle. More that 50% of the gadgets do not exist in the iGoogle Directory any more.

Where did they go? Why?

This is why we do not recommend iGoogle as a platform. The developer trust was lost at least a year ago.

Google, please pull your head out of the sand and pay attention. Scrubbing gadgets is fine, but blowing a business apart for no legitimate reason is another thing.

AllYourTweet.com is going well. We’ve made a number of bug fixes and improvements. We added a Twitter Access page which shows you your friends’ updates, replies, and favorites. It also allows you to reply to someone, favorite and un-favorite, and delete status updates. You can also follow allyourtweet.com developments from our twitter account @allyourtweet

Twitter has seen some tremendous growth the last few months. We’re quite happy to be a part of the phenomenon. The lesson: get into technology early because you’ll grow as it grows.

Here is an interesting blog post on Branding in the age of Social Media.

We are still working on getting our first iPhone App out the door and hope it’ll be accepted in this round. This development is leading the way for clients who want iPhone apps. If you have an idea for an iPhone app please let us work with you in its development. There are a long series of steps to be taken to get to the end goal and we understand those steps. You can email us at goglobalgadget@gmail.com to start the conversation.

We’ve published a new tool for all you website owners and blog operators.  Tweet Roosters is a little button that enables your users and readers to post to their Twitter account directly from your website or blog.  Why would someone put this tool on their website?  It takes only a little bit of space and opens up in a box directly on your website but primarily it helps your website or blog get more exposure on Twitter.

There is even a WordPress Widget Plugin for Tweet Rooster.

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 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.

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 believe the problem Google introduced that affected inline gadgets is now fixed. The problem was that all users got the security warning text regardless if they already clicked yes. Many people, apparently, didn’t click anything and left the warning there. The user numbers for our inline gadgets is now back to where it was plus growth. We haven’t verified this happening except in our usage numbers. It took about 7 weeks for them to fix the problem.

Once again thank you Google!

We created Universal Search Tabs out of a need for a really cool multi-search tool. Just before Google locked down the ability of gadgets to “inline” (gadgets that work in the page instead of just a box) we created Universal Search Tabs.

This gadget adds various search tools as tabs above your iGoogle search box. There can be icons as well as text and there is a Universal tab that allows you to select which website you’d like the search box to search without configuring the gadget.

Universal Search Tabs

It should be noted that something at iGoogle has probably changed. Starting on Sunday there has been a notable jump in gadget activity. Each day has added 4-6% but yesterday there was a 10% jump in usage over all. We’re not sure what’s going on but we wanted to document this activity.

This is an adaptation of our Apple Dashboard Bedrock Biorhythm gadget. It was done in flash and renders your biorhythm. What’s great about this gadget is it’s interactivity. Click on the graph and move your mouse! You’ll see that you can zoom in and out and move across time with the click of a button.

The Apple Dashboard widget can be found here:

Download Bedrock Biorhythms for Mac

One of our more popular gadgets is the New Music Releases Gadget:

It has tabs so you may select between the various genres.

We here at GGG wanted to create our own Wikipedia gadget. We didn’t want to follow the herd and just re-create what already existed. We used our capabilities to create a dynamic Social Wikipedia Search. This is a fun change that uses the power of community to educate: not just on Wikipedia but within a gadget. You get to see what other people are searching for. It only shows the latest few searches and there is an option to opt out of sending your search to everyone else. If you opt out then your searches will go directly to Wikipedia. You basically get to see what other people are searching for. In this process you may find an entry you’d like to read.

Here it is in action:

Last fall NetLingo and GGG collaborated to create a gadget called NetLingo Word of the Day. It’s a great useful gadget that shows various words and phrases used around the ‘net. There are thousands of entries and we are fortnutate to be working with such a person as Erin on such a website as NetLingo. Our part of this was to actually make the gadget. The easy part

It can be viewed here: