18 March 2009
Meet Twiggy, our new mobile widget
Next week, we’re going to build a mobile widget called Twiggy. It’s a Twitter search widget that will work on any widget-enabled phone (1,000,000+ handsets and growing).
We’re partnering with Betavine to help spread the word about standards-based mobile web widgets and we thought the best way to do that would be to actually build one :)
Here’s a little sneak peek for you:
We’ll be live-blogging and videoing the entire process so that you can learn how to build and use mobile widgets for your ideas and business. We’re excited about the technology because they’re open web-tech (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and completely Standards-based. It’s also exciting because it allows you to reach the non-iPhone market, which shouldn’t be ignored.
Feel free to tune in next week!
P.S. Don’t forget that you can win £20,000 no-strings-attached cash if you win the widget competition. Last entries on April 30th.
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Mark Forrester
# March 18, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Great stuff Ryan. I’ll certainly be following the progress with interest. A great way to follow what is being said about your web company/product from your mobile!
THEODIN
# March 18, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Nice work guys, cant wait to see the final product!
Aaron Irizarry
# March 18, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Very cool! Awesome to see that you are taking the non-iPhone market into consideration… I think it gets lost in the hype sometimes.
People with iPhony’s need some love also :)
~ Aaron I
Scott Couper
# March 18, 2009 - 4:52 pm
This sounds great, not only from a Twitter mobile point of view, but for info and a live look in on the development of a mobile widget – is this is going to be built using the S60 SDK for Symbian platform?
Ryan
# March 18, 2009 - 4:58 pm
@Scott – It’s built with plain-old HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In the end, it’s zipped up with an XML config file. Pretty straight forward.
In the future, there will be API hooks right into the phone’s contacts, location and other functionality.
Cian
# March 18, 2009 - 5:06 pm
That looks class! Well done!
Gareth Poole
# March 18, 2009 - 5:19 pm
looks great!
mediaBase notes » Mobile apps…we’re only at the beginning
# March 18, 2009 - 8:31 pm
[...] No one can even start to predict how much the mobile phone market will develop over the next few years. More and more i am seeing companies develop some cool apps. Take Carsonified for example… [...]
Tyce Clee
# March 19, 2009 - 5:16 am
Great news Ryan, I’m glad to see studios and developers out there not ignoring us that don’t own an iPhone :)
Steve
# March 19, 2009 - 8:58 am
Great stuff, looks good, like Mike’s frustration at wanting a bigger canvas!
Neil Thomas
# March 19, 2009 - 11:36 am
Good luck. I will definately use it. Will there be an iPhone (App Store) version of it also?
Sarah
# March 19, 2009 - 9:26 pm
iPhone app please!
Dan W
# March 20, 2009 - 9:46 am
@Sarah, @Neil – There are already plenty of iPhone twitter apps, like Tweetie.
Byron Rode
# March 20, 2009 - 10:33 am
This is the kind of stuff that I want to see coming out of such good design houses and agencies.
Amazing stuff Ryan, looking forward to its release :)
Follow the live development of an app with Carsonified | App The Rent
# March 20, 2009 - 11:25 am
[...] Next week, Carsonified are live blogging and building a mobile widget called Twiggy. [...]
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# March 23, 2009 - 1:31 pm
[...] We’ve kicked off Twiggy Week here at Carsonified HQ. We’re building a mobile widget that uses the Twitter Search API. [...]
Vodafone Mobile Widget Camp – 2/05/2009 « Harald Rietman’s Blog
# May 14, 2009 - 12:44 pm
[...] To make the mobile widget act like an application the phone needs an application manager. This is something that will be preinstalled on Vodafone mobiles and hopefully also on other devices as well. Also it is possible to download and install the application manager separately. Basically the application manager is responsible for starting and controlling your mobile widget. It starts a mini browser (Opera) without the frame and navigation buttons so that it looks like your app is running as an application but in fact is a web page. This last part is crucial because you can now make your widget available in any (mobile) browser that supports the W3C standards. So you only need to develop your widget once and you can make it available on any web page or mobile internet browser – such as the iPhone or Android phone. A good example of this is Twiggy created by Elliot Kember from Carsonified. [...]