Comments on: Meet Twiggy, our new mobile widget

By: Vodafone Mobile Widget Camp – 2/05/2009 « Harald Rietman’s Blog

Vodafone Mobile Widget Camp – 2/05/2009 « Harald Rietman’s Blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:44:53 +0000

[...] To make the mobile widget act like an application the phone needs an application manager. This is something that will be preinstalled on Vodafone mobiles and hopefully also on other devices as well. Also it is possible to download and install the application manager separately. Basically the application manager is responsible for starting and controlling your mobile widget. It starts a mini browser (Opera) without the frame and navigation buttons so that it looks like your app is running as an application but in fact is a web page. This last part is crucial because you can now make your widget available in any (mobile) browser that supports the W3C standards. So you only need to develop your widget once and you can make it available on any web page or mobile internet browser – such as the iPhone or Android phone. A good example of this is Twiggy created by Elliot Kember from Carsonified. [...]

By: Carsonified » Blog Archive » Twiggy Week - Let the mobile widget madness begin

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:31:04 +0000

[...] We’ve kicked off Twiggy Week here at Carsonified HQ. We’re building a mobile widget that uses the Twitter Search API. [...]

By: Follow the live development of an app with Carsonified | App The Rent

Follow the live development of an app with Carsonified | App The Rent — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:25:24 +0000

[...] Next week, Carsonified are live blogging and building a mobile widget called Twiggy. [...]

By: Byron Rode

Byron Rode — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:33:35 +0000

This is the kind of stuff that I want to see coming out of such good design houses and agencies.
Amazing stuff Ryan, looking forward to its release :)

By: Dan W

Dan W — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:46:57 +0000

@Sarah, @Neil – There are already plenty of iPhone twitter apps, like Tweetie.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:26:37 +0000

iPhone app please!

By: Neil Thomas

Neil Thomas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:36:57 +0000

Good luck. I will definately use it. Will there be an iPhone (App Store) version of it also?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:58:20 +0000

Great stuff, looks good, like Mike’s frustration at wanting a bigger canvas!

By: Tyce Clee

Tyce Clee — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:16:23 +0000

Great news Ryan, I’m glad to see studios and developers out there not ignoring us that don’t own an iPhone :)

By: mediaBase notes » Mobile apps…we’re only at the beginning

mediaBase notes » Mobile apps…we’re only at the beginning — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:31:39 +0000

[...] No one can even start to predict how much the mobile phone market will develop over the next few years. More and more i am seeing companies develop some cool apps. Take Carsonified for example… [...]

By: Gareth Poole

Gareth Poole — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:19:23 +0000

looks great!

By: Cian

Cian — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:06:28 +0000

That looks class! Well done!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:58:48 +0000

@Scott – It’s built with plain-old HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In the end, it’s zipped up with an XML config file. Pretty straight forward.

In the future, there will be API hooks right into the phone’s contacts, location and other functionality.

By: Scott Couper

Scott Couper — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:52:44 +0000

This sounds great, not only from a Twitter mobile point of view, but for info and a live look in on the development of a mobile widget – is this is going to be built using the S60 SDK for Symbian platform?

By: Aaron Irizarry

Aaron Irizarry — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:51:56 +0000

Very cool! Awesome to see that you are taking the non-iPhone market into consideration… I think it gets lost in the hype sometimes.
People with iPhony’s need some love also :)

~ Aaron I

By: THEODIN

THEODIN — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:51:50 +0000

Nice work guys, cant wait to see the final product!

By: Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:51:09 +0000

Great stuff Ryan. I’ll certainly be following the progress with interest. A great way to follow what is being said about your web company/product from your mobile!