Within Route
Within Route is a site and widget that allows you to quickly and easily find businesses along your route. Powered by Yelp and Google Maps, enter your start and end locations along with a search term. The driving route is returned with businesses matching your criteria within approximately 1 mile of your route. Click on a business marker and get driving directions with the business set as a waypoint. With this new service provided by Within Route, you can quickly plan a pit stop on your way to your destination.
Read more…
Post-it® Notes iGoogle Screenshot
3M, the maker of Post-it® Notes™, recently released a widget (Post-it® Notes™ Shopping Genius) in what looks like a marketing campaign for their Post-it® Notes™ product. The widget turns the classic Post-it® Notes™ into a digital format and transforms the ever useful shopping list into a smart tool. The widget allows you to search for products and add them to a shopping list. As prices and inventory changes, the widget will update the list so you don’t have to. Overall, this seemed like a good marketing tool for their campaign.
We grabbed the iGoogle version of the widget, played around a bit and dug a little deeper. We did not look at the Windows Vista, Windows 7 nor Mac OS X versions. At first glance it looks straight forward.
Read more…
Unfortunately, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is continuing and is over the 60 day mark. It saddens us to see that continue and to put up this widget. The idea that we need a widget to keep track of and to stay up-to-date on a environmental disaster of this magnitude is sickening.
The widget by PBS NewsHour provides an estimate of the number of gallons leaked. A slider allows you to adjust the estimate based on the daily rate. The daily rate ranges from the low end as estimated by the Department of Energy to the worst case scenario as estimated by experts in the field.
Read more…
Iron Man 2
We came across the official Iron Man 2 movie trailer widget today via a friend’s Facebook stream. After clicking through to view it, we felt compelled to give it a quick review.
There is so much wrong with the widget that we will only focus on the top 3 items. Let’s hope the movie itself is much better.
Interestingly enough, a quick Google search returned an official UK version of the Iron Man 2 movie trailer widget that was significantly better. Both widgets are below for comparison and reference. They are not easy to find on the official Iron Man 2 movie site.
Read more…
NCAA® March Madness on Demand®
Just released today by CBSSports.com!
Here is the 2010 NCAA® March Madness on Demand® Widget. It’s pretty basic right now and there’s not much info on it. The first game doesn’t tip till 7:30 PM Eastern tonight so there’s nothing to do on the widget yet.
However, we assume that once the games start going, the widget will get updated scores and allow you to click through to the live game being streamed online at NCAA® March Madness on Demand®.
We love the tourney around here. So, if all it did was give you an easy way to browse the schedule and launch the games you want to watch, we’ll be happy.
Yes, that’s a pretty low bar to set, but hey it’s March Madness…
Read more…
