Everyone is wild for widgets, or so they tell me. Here is one we just finished up at work:



This ties into a new page we call Brightcove Takeout. Its basically a whole bunch of RSS feeds from different areas of the site. In addition to getting the RSS feed, you can grab a widget powered by the feed (Takeout boxes). The one I posted here is powered by a feed of my most recent video uploads. Pretty neat.

Labels: brightcove, internet, Video, widget

This is a Flash widget that is distributed by a site called yourminis.com and is capable of accessing the Brightcove site to pull down content of your choice. I have this one configured to do a search for the term 'nat' on Brightcove and return the results. It can also be setup to use a category RSS feed to show the newest video in the Music category or something similar.

I'm a little skeptical of the amount of hype associated with widgets, mostly because they generally seem to be useless eye candy shoved into the side column of a blog I'll never look at again. This particular widget however provides a lot of functionality and customizable behavior in a slick little interface.

Update:
A site I've always liked, The International Herald Tribune, has started using one of these widgets in their Style section. Take a look!

Labels: brightcove, Video, widget