{"id":163,"date":"2007-10-02T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/cgi\/wp\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-10-02T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:36:53","slug":"yahoo-widget-for-stickam-aspnet-community-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Widget For Stickam &#038; ASP.NET Community Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that my <strong>Yahoo Widget<\/strong> for Stickam has been approved  and is now available for download from the <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/gallery\/?search=Stickam\">Yahoo Widget  Gallery<\/a>. I did not receive any notice that it was approved. Now I just need  to get my Vista Sidebar gadget for Stickam approved.<\/p>\n<p>I have been invited to blog on the Microsoft web site for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asp.net\/community\/weblogs\/\">ASP.NET community<\/a>. I have been  reading programmer blogs at work in order to pick up some tricks and keep up  with changing technology. Microsoft provides this web site to encourage  developer community. It is an interesting example of social networking for  business. If Microsoft can create a vibrant community out of the developers that  work with its frameset and platform then they will gain programmer allegiance.  Programmers have always been very important to Microsoft. Web developers could  just as easily use PHP and MySQL on Linux or Java and its massive framework.<\/p>\n<p>However based on my experience with <strong>YouTube<\/strong>, I think Microsoft is  going about it all wrong. I am not impressed by a collection of text blogs.  Vlogging is far more effective at creating a sense of community than text  blogging because you can see and hear the people you are communicating with. The  sense of community is so strong at <strong>YouTube<\/strong> and <strong>Stickam<\/strong> that people  actually talk about it! They have become very conscious of the fact that  vlogging creates real community which they never found elsewhere on the  Internet.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that Microsoft did have an opportunity to steal the  vlogging community from <strong>YouTube<\/strong> but they blew it. When Microsoft started  their own video sharing site, <strong>Soapbox<\/strong>, many vloggers checked it out but  ultimately rejected the site because it did not promote community. If Microsoft  had designed Soapbox with better social networking features and with less  emphasis on video sharing, it is possible that YouTube vloggers would have  mobbed the site. However, what they could now do is integrate Soapbox into their  developer communities to strengthen their market share in the IT industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that my Yahoo Widget for Stickam has been approved and is now available for download from the Yahoo Widget Gallery. I did not receive any notice that it was approved. Now I just need to get my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}