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Sunday, August 20, 2006

ShanghaiDaily Headlines Widget

Update (2006/08/24)
Things get better and better! Without submitting my little Dashboard widget to the following sites, I get thank you emails over at my mailbox. MacUpdate has added my widget to their site and woah! 104 downloads to date! I also received a congratulatory email from Softpedia stating that my widget's won an award! My widget now wears the following badge:

I'm also happy that Apple has added my little widget to their list of news widgets (125 to date).

It's a little amazing to note that with so many things going on around the world, there are only 125 news widgets listed over at Apple. Perhaps this is an inspiration. As one of my former students (who's now in Germany studying Deutch and having the time of his life while on vacation, before going back to reality doing Int'l Economics in Switzerland) said, "doesnt it feel good to contribute back to the pool of innovation?" Indeed it does! :-)

Update (2006/08/20):
The ShanghaiDaily Dashboard Widget made it to the front page of DashboardWidgets.com! Below is a screenshot. Download links have been linked to the download page of DashboardWidgets.com. :-)






I've been looking for some well-designed, local Dashboard widget that relates to Shanghai but so far, I haven't seen any that I find useful.

Thus, I'm tremendously proud and happy to announce the availability of The ShanghaiDaily Headlines Dashboard Widget!


I was originally planning to create a Dashboard widget for SmartShanghai. However, it seems that I'll have to postpone that for the next installment as SmartShanghai's RDF definition is more complicated than what I expected. I was then contemplating on using ShanghaiExpat's RSS feed but it seems to be pretty unstable as well. Rambling in my thoughts as to which Shanghai-centric site might have a good RSS feed, ShanghaiDaily.com seemed like a great feed source to suck data from!




I have indeed not been disappointed! Quality news and views -- English window to China news as they term it!

The ShanghaiDaily site provides a web alternative to the paper edition.

More info about Shanghai Daily from Wikipedia ...
The Shanghai Daily is one of the English-language newspaper in Mainland China, started in October 1999. Its primary audience is visiting foreigners, mainly overseas investors and tourists.

The paper reports the economic, social, cultural and diplomatic development in Shanghai and the vicinity. It aims to give its readers a positive impression of the government policies, economy, and culture in the region.
Download your copy of The ShanghaiDaily Headlines Dashboard Widget today!

3 Comments:

Blogger Vampire Rabbit said...

It has stopped working, will there be an update to fix this soon please?

12:37 AM

 
Blogger Vampire Rabbit said...

It has stopped working, will there be an update to fix this soon please?

12:38 AM

 
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