June 23, 2006
get your own gapingvoid widget
The gapingvoid widget has arrived. You can get yours here.
Feel free to add it to your blog sidebar, website, or wherever. Thanks.
Kudos to Paul Farnell at Salted.com for designing it.
[UPDATE:] The widget now comes as a Netvibes module. Thanks to Victor Cerutti for building it.
[UPDATE:] Here are some add-ons to the widget I’m working with Paul on:
1. RSS feeds [obviously].
2. Making it compatible for Typepad [Thanks, Anil, for the pointer].
3. Making it compatible with Wordpress [Does anybody know anybody at Wordpress who can help?].
4. Giving people a choice of widths: 100, 150, 200, 300 and 400 pixels.
5. Perhaps also having a desktop widget for both Mac and Windows..
Hopefully have them up in the next day or two.
[UPDATE:] Also, if I ever put advertising on it [not really planning on doing so, but you never know], it’ll be on the pop-up bit, and CERTAINLY NOT the wee bit that goes on the user’s sidebar.
[SUNDAY UPDATE:] Paul and I are still working on the widget, so expect some improvements in the very near future. Also, if you have any ideas how to improve it, let’s hear ‘em. Obviously, we want the widget to be as user-friendly as possible. Thanks.
my, that was easy!
Absolutely splendid.
Awesome !!!
Kool! You’re now ‘live’ on my blog. Kinda classes the place up, don’tcha think?
any chance in someone developing a dashboard widget? THAT would be awfully cool.
Might this be a product of the Gilmore Gang? Badass.
Great work, read this site every day.
Michele, for a widget see
http://www.steve-lacey.com/gapingvoid
Actually, Paul, Paul Farnell and I first talked about the widget thing back in summer, 2005, but it didn’t go anywhere.
When the subject came up again on the Gillmor Gang it re-lit the fuse.
fantastic piece of kit, thanks hugh et al…but is there a wordpress plugin for those of us not hosting our own blogs (and don’t have access to the html code?!).…
Excellent! Just what I needed to jazz up my IP service
Thanks, dude! Very generous of you!
Alright, now let’s show Paul the TypePad Widget docs… it’s super easy, and then TypePad folks can add your illustrations with one click.
Thanks, Anil.
Ed, yeah, we’re working on Wordpress, too.
Also, if I ever put advertising on it (not planning on doing so, but you never know), it’ll be on the pop-up bit, and CERTAINLY NOT the wee bit that goes on the user’s sidebar.
By WordPress, do you mean WordPress.com (and similar)? I see no reason why this widget wouldn’t work on traditional WordPress… does anyone have it working on their WP blog?
Wodress.com — No luck I’m afaris, just paste the widget script into a new page and no luck. Guess it enfringed their coding policy.
You should be able to round this quickly with an RRS feed though for the short term.
stunning — love it Hugh!
Great idea, bad implementation.
The widget should be based on rss so that it can be extended and used along with any publishing system/service, but i guess that should be on the way as i write.
Regarding the source, you are using Flickr to serve the images but there is no link back to their site (the photo page actually).
This is just a suggestion, I still think it is a great idea.
(willing to help
The RSS is on its way, Marcos… as I already specified
I need this source in simple html to include in my free wordpress blog. WP doesn’t support javascripts