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Widgets and Web Applications
Articles and resources about widgets web applications and how government might make use of them to distribute information to citizens.
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- Citizen Request Tracker
- CivicPlus. "Citizen Request Tracker is the application used by cities and counties to receive service requests and other input from citizens. It accepts, assigns, and routes the request automatically through the city/county staff in order to ensure the most prompt and appropriate action on each request. Examples of a Citizen Request Tracker request would be reporting a pothole or graffiti, reporting code violations, or submitting suggestions..."
Added: 21 July 2011;
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- Why People Do & Don't Use Location Apps (Survey)
- By Marshall Kirkpatrick. Read Write Web, April 18, 2011. "Connecting with people, finding places liked by friends and tracking personal travel habits over time were listed as the primary reasons people who use location based social networks like Facebook Places, Foursquare and Google Latitude do so in a survey published by Portland, Oregon digital marketing firm White Horse. The firm surveyed 437 smartphone owners and found that discounts and gaming were not seen as significant motivators for the use of location services..."
Added: 20 April 2011;
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- DHS sets privacy policies for selected social media tools
- Department will not collect personal info from tools such as widgets, texts, mobile apps, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, March 24, 2011. "The Homeland Security Department has trained its employees not to collect personal data from individuals with whom they interact via social media tools such as widgets, mobile applications, text messages and Real Simple Syndication feeds, according to a report from the department’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer..."
Added: 28 March 2011;
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- Privacy Impact Assessment for the Use of Unidirectional Social Media Applications Communications and Outreach - in pdf format 227kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Department of Homeland Security, March 8, 2011. "Unidirectional social media applications encompass a range of applications, often referred to as applets or widgets, that allow users to view relevant, real-time content from predetermined sources. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or Department) intends to use unidirectional social media tools including desktop widgets, mobile apps, podcasts, audio and video streams, Short Message Service (SMS) texting, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, among others, for external relations (communications and outreach) and to disseminate timely content to the public about DHS initiatives, public safety, and other official activities and one-way notifications. These dynamic communication tools broaden the Department’s ability to disseminate content and provide the public multiple channels to receive and view content. The public will continue to have the option of obtaining comparable content and services through the Department’s official websites and other official means. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) analyzes the Department's use of unidirectional social media applications. This PIA does not cover users sending content to the Department. Additionally, this PIA will describe the personally identifiable information (PII) and the extremely limited circumstances that the Department will have access to PII, how it will use the PII, what PII is retained and shared, and how individuals can gain access to their PII..."
Added: 28 March 2011;
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- What are the Principles That Make an Awesome Web App?
- By Alex Williams. Read Write Web, December 22, 2010. "Web apps are in some ways becoming micro-engines for getting us through our day. They tell us if our flight is on time. We use them to tell people where we are or even the route we are traveling in real-time. The best apps add a bit of value to our lives. So what should the Web developer consider when building an app?..."
Added: 23 December 2010;
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- Are Web Apps the Future of Websites? (A: Yes)
- by Gary Stein. Clickz, December 17, 2010. "... The Web app model is really a new way to think about how you package up content and functionality on the Web, if you are a developer or publisher. One of the very early fast movers in the Web store was The New York Times app, and it shows clearly how amazingly different an app can be from a site..."
Added: 20 December 2010;
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- The Architecture of the Common English Widget
- by Michael Fuchs. Direct.gov Innovate Blog, Posted 2 November 2010. "As you will not have overlooked, there has within HMG been a significant and growing trend toward opening up government data, as well pushing data out and making it as accessible and useful as possible. In mid-2009 - not at all coincidentally, at the trough of the economic downturn - the innovate team was asked to build an embeddable widget for searching the vast Jobcentre Plus jobs database..."
Added: 9 November 2010;
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- Virginia Web Widgets Bring Government Information to Users - on the Website of Their Choice
- By Hilton Collins, Staff Writer. Government Technology, September 3, 2010. "Because people aren't spending enough time on state portals, Virginia officials are working to change this by creating mini-applications, called widgets, that visitors can take from Virginia's official portal and embed on their personal websites, blogs, social networking pages or other private pieces of Web real estate. These widgets contain state-specific data -- election news, lottery numbers or hotel information, for example -- that automatically update with new information..."
Added: 7 September 2010;
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- Stay Connected with HealthCare.gov Widgets and Badges
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Add a HealthCare.gov badge to your website. Here you can obtain the code for a widget which lets you find out what health insurance options are available to you.
Added: 26 August 2010;
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- HHS offers widget for identifying health insurance choices
- Online insurance-finder widget is interactive, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, August 25, 2010. "The Health and Human Services Department today launched an online interactive widget to help Americans find affordable health insurance coverage..."
Added: 26 August 2010;
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- US Federal Government Gadget Gallery
- USA.gov. "These government gadgets (or widgets) are online applications built by one website that can be displayed on another website. You can embed these gadgets in personalized home pages, blogs, and other sites. Once you've added the widget, there's no technical maintenance - the original source of the information will update the content..."
Added: 26 July 2010;
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- FDA Drug Information Widgets
- US food and Drug Administration. "Using modules (or "widgets") provided by FDA, you can insert links to FDA content into your own Web pages. FDA widgets contain links to FDA Web pages and resources on common topics. FDA may update the links within widgets now and then to keep their contents current..."
Added: 17 March 2010;
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- Last Call: Widgets 1.0: The widget Interface
- W3C, 17 November 2009. "The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Widgets 1.0: The widget Interface..."
Added: 30 November 2009;
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- Twitter Launches Custom Search Widget
- by Manoj Jasra. Web Analytics World, Friday, July 24, 2009. "Twitter has just launched a new search widget which takes their search functionality to the next level by showing results in real time..."
Added: 27 July 2009;
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- Google Launches Web Elements: Easy Copy and Paste Widgets
- by Andres Ferrate. Programmable Web, May 27, 2009. "Today at Google I/O, Google announced the release of a new set of embeddable JavaScript widgets that allow users to include various types of Google applications on web pages. The new Google Web Elements provide a new way for users to enhance and expand the functionality of web sites and web pages without the need to develop or deploy any code..."
Added: 28 May 2009;
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This category last updated: 21 July 2011
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