More Ways To Save With New Shaw’s Weekly Circular Widget
Posted on 6 January 2009 by Patrick FlanaganNo Comments
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Loading ...It’s live finally. The new Shaw’s online circular widget. It first started out as a series of mockups…
Early stage conceptual design of what the widget was to look like
and then was turned into a interactive flash application (a series of .swf’s or flash movies for you geeks out there) that was not able to be easily embedded or moved around. But then this same flash application was “widgetized” via Widgetbox which resulted in this cool top deals widget in being “wrapped” in such a manner that it is now very easy for a normal, non-geek user to grab this widget and for them to re-post and syndicate the widget across a whole host of supported 3rd party sites such as:
- Blogger
- TypePad
- Wordpress
- iGoogle
- Netvibes
- Freewebs
- Pageflakes
- Ning
- Piczo
It also opens up a load of social and viral sharing options like:
- Email the widget to a friend
- Post to Del.icio.us
- Submit to Digg
- Add to Twitter
- Add to StumbleUpon
- Add to Technorati
- Add to Reddit
By using a 3rd party “widgetization” provider (eg Widgetbox), it not only makes these 3rd party integrations a snap, but it also allows for:
- A bunch of “out-of-the-box” metrics to instantly be enabled such as:
- Total widget views
- Widget views by domain
- Widget uniques
- Menu shows (measure of how many people are interesting in grabbing or sharing the widget)
- New installs
- Active installs
- New installs by domain
- Additional exposure and distribution via the widget provider’s index (called the Gallery within Widgetbox) and widget specific search engine
- Allows for users to rate and comment on the widget (so as to often provide useful feedback on what is working or not)
- Very useful and detailed end user help guides and instructions on how to move or embed the widget into all of the various 3rd party sites
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