Musicane Widget for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III

Hey, there’s still time to digitally download Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III from Musicane!

Yay!

Hypebot has a list of TVT’s unsecured creditors.  I’m not sure how this was obtained but it’s well worth a bit of browsing.

Plus, it’s the first opportunity I’ve had to embed a Scribd document.

Document at Scribd:
TVT list of unsecured creditors

Spinlets Widget for The Pack’s Standing In My Car

Just found out about the widget site Spinlets via a publicist promoting Dolla’s Spinlets widget.

I went with The Pack’s Standing In My Car because Dolla’s Who The F*ck Is That drops both the F-word and the N-bomb to excess.  Not a real problem for me in his case but it just doesn’t fit ProHipHop’s inching progress towards mainstream values.  Of course, The Pack ain’t no saints.

But I like both songs just fine.

Over at VidRap:
Dolla f/T-Pain & Tay Dizm – Who The F*ck Is That

The Pack – In My Car

Ego Twitter’in Just Like Snoop Dogg

So, Snoop Dogg’s got a Twitter feed, or whatever they’re called, and that’s given Twitter and Snoop Dogg a widget based marketing opportunity.

Yes, you can now Shizzolate Your Twitters for minutes of…fun.

Considering that Twitter is designed to be a very lightweight app I find a bulky widget to be an odd promotional device for them [especially now that's it not showing up on my blog or their's, at least for the moment].

Snoop Dogg – Ego Trippin’

Note the use of the Ego Trippin’ cover art in the widget.

I would think a lot of the people on Twitter will get a big kick out of this because the tech crowd eats this stuff up but I’m not sure if it will do much for Snoop’s upcoming album.

But I may be wrong about Twitter users’ response since some are now looking at the appearance of this widget as a sign to leave Twitter.

Widget distribution by Gigya.

www.Jango.com

ProHipHop’s Jango Jukebox Widget

This Jango Jukebox widget is pretty darn cool though you never know who they’re going to have at this stage and who’s still missing.  The lack of photos for some of these artists is kind of odd as well but it’s still pretty darn cool.

It’s getting so that bothering to license stuff makes a lot less sense than tossing up a widget from a Web 2.0 company doing the heavy lifting and that’s one more piece of the puzzle to make small fry competitive with those whose pockets are much deeper.

Web 1.0: Business Development
Web 2.0: Widget Distribution

On a sad note for Jango, their press release at PR Web, which includes a framed version of the site at the bottom of the page as on many PR Web releases, automatically redirects to Jango.com.

You can hit the back button and then stop to keep it from doing that but if you’re not interested in toying around, you can read what they’re claiming over at Hip Hop Press.

Now if the width was customizable so you could add it to a blog sidebar, these guys would really have something.  I don’t understand why so many widget makers are ignoring the obvious but that’s a lot of opportunities to pass up especially when you claim to have created a widget for "personal blogs".

 
   

 

 

   

 

Gydget for Langarado Music Festival

The Langarado Music Festival is a rock, roots and world music festival that includes the Beastie Boys.  But you’re hearing about it here because I like this widget, or Gydget, as the creators call it.

It’s a pretty cool self-contained widget that efficiently crams a lot into a small space without overloading it.  There’s also a contest for tickets and airfare to the festival for people who post it on their sites.

The Gydget service is free though the Learn More button currently takes you to a sign-up page before they’ll tell you more.

A-Trak’s Photo Widget

RCRD LBL launched in November and it’s a pretty interesting experiment however I just wanted to post a couple of widgets from A-Trak for my ever growing, slowly loading widget collection.

Actually I just pulled one because it’s pretty dodgy.  And I haven’t posted any of them before because they weren’t working right when I tried.  This one won’t even center but there may be a simple reason I’m missing.

Anyway, I’d say they have widget problems.

Nikon Press Release:
NIKON PARTNERS WITH RCRD LBL,
HELPS MUSICIANS AND THEIR FANS CONNECT THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

Official Site:
RCRD LBL