Comments on: Widget Platform MuseStorm Catches iPhone Fever

By: FredCavazza.net » Un nouvel âge d’or pour les widgets

FredCavazza.net » Un nouvel âge d’or pour les widgets — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:52:28 +0000

[...] Et il y a enfin une frontière toujours plus fine entre widgets web et widgtes mobiles, principalement sur l’iPhone mais d’autres plateformes mobiles vont succomber à la mode (cf. Widget Platform MuseStorm Catches iPhone Fever). [...]

By: Barbara Ling

Barbara Ling — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:23:51 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I tried making an iPhone widget of my RSS feed but it didn’t come thru….so I hacked up a work-around (ie, click HERE for my feed).

I had selected the Text | RSS panel and figured that was enough. It wasn’t. I’ll have to look around for more.

Data points,

Barbara

By: Your iPhone News Blog | iPhone widgets by MuseStorm coming now!

Your iPhone News Blog | iPhone widgets by MuseStorm coming now! — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:22:04 +0000

[...] To be precise, MuseStorm isn’t exactly debuting a new product. Rather, it’s adding iPhone support to its existing Widget Studio, which can be used for a variety of environments ranging from the Facebook platform to the Mac dashboard. But unlike these other environments, the MuseStorm Widget Studio will be free for iPhone developers….MORE…. [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ウィジェット製作のプラットフォーム「MuseStorm」がiPhone熱病に感染

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ウィジェット製作のプラットフォーム「MuseStorm」がiPhone熱病に感染 — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:34:37 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:44:19 +0000

The service is incredibly easy to use with some great results. Made me a couple of really nice widgets.

Pity other platforms (Facebook, Yahoo!, Google) are not available for free…

By: Auston

Auston — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:00:43 +0000

Thanks for the plug!

By: Marcia Kadanoff

Marcia Kadanoff — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:59:10 +0000

Just a comment on our strategy here. Because we sell business to business and our competitors have consumer offerings, we were looking for a way for prosumers to go hands on with the product which is how and why we came up with the idea of making the iPhone offering available as a free offering. MuseStorm’s paying customers have been asking for ways to expand their reach to the iPhone, so this offering allows us to kill two birds with one stone.

In terms of some of Mark’s other comments… prosumers we talk with appreciate the ability to edit the CSS directly using their own tools versus any we could provide. At MuseStorm, we are always conscious of walking a fine line between ease of use (making the platform easy to use by anyone) and allowing for pixel perfect control (which is what power users demand). The compromise we struck here was to allow power users to edit the CSS in a direct fashion, since they have the skills and inclination to do so. You can see the results in our widget for “Cirque du Stormee” which Mark included in his post. With only a little CSS editing I was able to get my application to a custom look and feel … something I could not do before for the iPhone (and believe me - as a gadget girl and early adopter of iPhone - I tried!).