Fokke & Sukke widget live
The last few weeks I have been working with opensocial quite a bit.
I’m planning on releasing 2 complex widgets soon. But while they’r not done yet, an easy one is: I build a daily Fokke & Sukke widget. You can add it to your hyves (or any other opensocial container, hopefully), by adding this url as a widget:
http://cdn.panman.nl/xml/foksuk.xml
If you are on hyves you can add it by simply clicking this link. An example can be seen at my hyves page at http://martijnpannevis.hyves.nl and it’s in the Hyves Gallery.
As an experiment I also don’t host any of the content on a traditional server. The data processing is all done by Yahoo Pipes. And the small bits of static content (the images and XML) are served by Amazon Cloudfront. Cloudfront offers a CDN layer over their S3 service. One of the advantages over other CDN’s is the fact that it has no setup costs: you transfer the files to S3, add some settings ( I used the Firefox addin S3 Organiser) , add a CNAME in your DNS records, and your done.
While a CDN might be overkill to distribute a few kb of images (which also will be cached by the opensocial containers), just the fact that it’s possible without any barrier of entry makes it cool 
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So, have fun with Fokke & Sukke, and all add the widget to your hyves profile!
Nice widget! Any hits on your created by link already? Do you have stats on the number of users?
Hyves has stats on the number of installs (see link to the hyves gallery). And I do have some stats on the number of views.
This gadget stopped working on 14-09-09 on my hyves page, sad because liked it very much
I just tested it on my page, and it seems to work fine. Does it work again for you? Do you have your hyves URL?
Yes it’s working again thanks for that