Mobile Versions
I saw over on Rafer’s blog that there was a mobile version of the Feedster 500. Very cool! I took it as my cue to setup a WINKsite for this blog. I’ve used WINKsite on and off for a while, and I think it’s a fantastic idea. One thing I would love to see, and that I think would do tons to keep me using the service continually rather than intermittently, is a bit of a break down for the services for use outside the emulator they have. The emulator is a great feature, it allows you to embed a virtual view of the device interface into another web page. What I would like is something more like a cast for some of the features. I would love to be able to include the chat in the sidebar for my blog, or to include a couple of messages from the guestbook. Or a simple little REST interface to the stuff. I bet it would be something like 2 percent of the effort it was to get the emulator working.
October 18th, 2005 at 11:39 am
[...] Charlie Schick posted about some of the stuff going on at Winksite. I’ve posted about tying together the mobile and desktop versions, and I think the embeddable widget is a great move. There are some quirks still, like all the chatrooms in California appear to be in Los Angeles if you drill down on the Metro tab. But the idea here is really solid. It pulls together horizontal slices through all the sites, which lets you find an active chat room without having to go through all the different individual areas. Definitely a good thing. I’ll have to spend some more time playing around with it. I like the map they have there. Winksite was way out in front in terms of location services. Ever since I first spoke with Dave almost 2 years ago every Winksite has had location info and every post has options for geo info. With the Google maps interfaces allowing people to shove their own info into a rich interface there’s a lot more info in consuming geoannotated info. Hopefully that’ll force through the demand for annoted content, and we’ll see some actual location services from carriers. [...]