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I have started another blog at http://rosieojo.wordpress.com

I am thinking about dedicating my new blog to my technological and entrepreneurial persuits.

Mega Monster Downloader

I am planning to implement a mega yt downloader gadget. Once implemented, in terms of gadgetry, it will be on par with what Hugh Hefner has done for ....."Bunnydom"....

Traumatised!!!

After the events of the last week, I am suffering from PTSD.

It's back to the technological philantropy to steady my nerves and save my sanity.

I'll work on a playlist for my YT Player!

Hikikomorihime, has said of my YT gadget

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"I'm not downloading this because I'm needing something that plays one of my playlists. However, if you do add that functionality, I want you to know I'm watching for it! I'll be one of the first to download! "

...guess I better get to work! lol

Management Consultants!

A physician, a civil engineer, and a management consultant were arguing about what was the oldest profession in the world.

The physician remarked, "Well, in the Bible, it says that God created Eve from a rib taken out of Adam. This clearly required surgery, and so I can rightly claim that mine is the oldest profession in the world."

The civil engineer interrupted, and said, "But even earlier in the book of Genesis, it states that God created the order of the heavens and the earth from out of the chaos. This was the first and certainly the most spectacular application of civil engineering. Therefore, fair doctor, you are wrong: mine is the oldest profession in the world."

The management consultant leaned back in her chair, smiled, and then said confidently, "Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?"


How many management consultants does it take to change a light bulb?

• We don't know. They never get past the feasibility study.
• Three. One to change the bulb and two to write the standards and tell him what he did wrong.
• Five. One to change the bulb and four to contemplate how Tom Peters would have done it.
• Five. One to change the bulb and four to tell him how much better they could have done it.
• What's your budget?

The Verdict - Revisted

The last post was a bit negative.

On the positive side:

• 3 of my gadgets have been featured on the Google Desktop Blog.
  
• 1 of my gadgets is in the YouTube App Gallery.
• I have received visits to my website and e-mails from the U.S. Senate and NASA.
• I have received a nice bag of swag from Google.
• I do feature in the Google Gadgets Hall of Fame by "submissions". I am currently ranked at 11.

The Verdict

So, last year I made the 10 gadgets you see below. Daily unique views are now 60 per day (on average). I have made 1 dollar 42 cents from advertising revenue he he. I never made it into the Gadgets Hall of Fame.... Can't win 'em all I guess!!!

I needed to work harder on Internet marketing strategies.....

So, anyway moving on.... this year I am devoting my attention to creating a killer iPhone App. The plan is to retire off the proceeds!!!!

YouTube MP4 Downloader

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Download YouTube content and play it on your ipod etc....

YouTube QuickView Desktop Player

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1. Search YouTube video database.



2. Preview videos in expanded mode.

3. Add videos to favorites tabs, and watch later.



4. View video in full-screen mode

Periodic Table of Videos App

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A more elegant version of the initial effort.

Precious Metals Spot Prices Gadget

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Completed work on this one over the weekend. It is in beta, as it's not the best implementation, but is a solution nevertheless... I guess....

Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium Spot Prices, with live 24 hour Spot Charts. New York - London - Hong Kong - Sydney - Zurich.

Stand-alone widgets

Over the weekend I have been re-writing all my gadget apps in C#. I think they may work better as stand-alone apps. I have kicked off with the Patent Database. You can download it from here: rosie.nelson.ojo.googlepages.com/epo/installs/setup.exe.

U.S.Senator Search and Contact and Periodic Table Interactive will follow shortly.

Periodic Table Video Interactive

From hydrogen to ununoctium, Periodic Table Interactive links to short videos about each chemical element by Professor Martyn Poliakoff, internationally-renowned chemist. It also links to Wikipedia entries for each element. This gadget utilises the Periodic Table of Videos developed by Nottingham University.

Update - I have now added links to amazon.com, so, for a particular element you can view/purchase Amazon books on the subject.

Meet Professor Martyn Poliakoff

U.S. Senator Search and Contact

This gadget is your brand new portal for accessing and influencing your U.S. Senator. Find out what your Senator has been doing lately, what they stand for, and who they stand with. Make them hear your views and your voice.

This gadget displays contact information on U.S. Senators and allows you to contact your Senator using Skype. Click on their web address to view their full itenary. Click on the US Flag to mute/unmute national anthem.

The 1915 recording of the Star-Spangled Banner is sung by Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America.

I made the Youtube video, immediately below, to demonstate the functionality of U.S. Senator Search and Contact. Due to size constraints visibility is not that clear, but you can get a general idea of it's usage, and then you can try U.S. Senator Search and Contact for yourself at full-size.

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Esp@cenet Patent Database

Check out Tesla and Edison Patents! This tool allows you to query the European Esp@cenet database which holds some 60 million patents from all over the planet.


Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard



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OpenOffice.org Shortcut Gadget

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo) is a cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office '97–2003 formats, Microsoft Office '2007 format (in version 3), among many others.

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News from the Borgen Project

The Borgen Project is a campaign that is bringing political
attention to severe poverty.

The Borgen Project in 60 Seconds

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog! I have been experimenting with Google Desktop Gadgets as a mechanism to drive traffic to a website. According to Google Analytics, the number of unique users to my dummy site is now on average 4 per day, with a bounce rate of near 100% lol. I guess it hasn't really worked for me. If one creates a really compelling/popular gadget, that is the way forward.

It would be interesting to see figures which show the user base of GDG, along with statistics on user demographics. That way, I could better create Gadgets that users actually require.