Jeteye widget
Jetpak is Public
Created By: datura
Last Modified: 01/11/06
Summary: widget discussion, proposal

Something that sets Jeteye apart as doing something different. Using this idea of a small encapsulated "window" or "screen" of information, like an iPod's display.

That idea and symbol, of the small display box, isn't truly powerful on Jeteye itself. Where that concept can really take off is when it is applied to another website.

Something like an RSS feed, users would sign on to Jeteye and downlaod a widget to apply to their own websites. It would install one of our jetpack display boxes on their site, which would display rotating Jetpacks based on search queries they provide.

If someone has a website about 1960s Corvettes for example, their input for the Jeteye widget would be something like "1960s Corvette" and the window that they installed onto their site would display the newest or maybe the best rated, Jetpack that returns that based on tags and content.

This would motivate people to use Jeteye to broadcast their opinions and ideas (as Jetpacks) to any multitude of websites or blogs or whatever of people who share their interests.

Google maps is something like this. Not quite, but bear with me. Google maps allows people to very simply throw a moveable, zoomable, clickable Google map onto their site or blog or whatever. The 'embedded' Jetpack would optimally, have the same ease of use as the Google map on the user's end. Copy paste some code or something that easy.

The small window should also have some functionality to scroll through Jetpacks right there on the window. Either resize the small Jeteye display to be a sort of preview window of Jeteye.com right there, or at its simplest, scroll buttons that allow the user to click to the next most relevant jetpack, etc.

Excuse the MSPaint quality, but please look at the image example...

I think that this functionality will be the true power of Jeteye. Allowing the Jetpacks to be active on other pages, not just through links to Jeteye dot com, but Drawing people into making content and using the site through the window's visibility across the web.

The domain where my email is hosted has expired.. I guess the friends I was trusting to keep that going have finally just given up and shut it down... leaving me email-less. So for the moment, this is how I'll send something to you, by tonight or tomorrow I should have a new emaill account up and running.





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