Widget Death Match

Why these widgets kill

Widget deathmasters, take note: these widgets do everything right – learn their moves or you will end up face down in a pool of widget blood!

• Pitch-perfect design – each widget is branded to the specific hip hop artists
• Embedded video inside the widgets makes them stand out in the crowd
• “Share” widget links invite users to get viral and offer an easy way to add them to your own blog or social networking page
• “More” widget links take users back to the MixBosses page; what’s the point of viral if people don’t know who started it all?
• Make money with widgets – Amazon links can be tied to an Amazon affiliate account, meaning that if you buy a CD from one of those widgets, IVP makes a little cheese
• Bonus features: hip hop wallpapers, AIM icons, and blog feeds transform each of these widgets into a mini-website

Soulja Boy – Bird Walk

Kanye West – Love Lockdown

Young Jeezy – Crazy World

Ludacris featuring T-Pain – One More Drink

Shaq Widget

Shaq is a genius on the court and on the silver screen.

MC Hammer Widget

Here’s another widget from famous former baseball player MC Hammer.

Update: Mike Gordon from Phish Widget

• Danny’s South Park widget, including a custom scrubber on a YouTube video.
• Pam’s Think Simple widget.
• Toshik’s Master Chief’s Finish the Fight widget.
• Widgetmaster Mike’s mini-twitter widget, the REAL Shaq widget, Amber Alerts milk carton widget, and 2 from the FBI: Top Fugitives widget and Top Terrorists widget.

We also have a surprise entry for Round 2: Andrew “Expect the Unexpected” Wags! Look for more blood the first week of December!

Be forewarned: Mike voted for Obama this year.

To create this effect in the KickApps Widget Studio, select the Advanced Video Player component from the stage and click on the “Actions” panel on the Component Pallet.  There are a couple new options under the Events label:

• Media Start (make something happen when the video starts)
• Media End (make something happen when the video ends)
• Media Percent Complete (make something happen when the video hits the 10% mark, for instance)
• Media Time Update  (make something happen when the video hits the 15 second mark, for instance)

What are you doing with your timeline?

Dear Widget Sensei,

Yup, you’re the master, I’m hanging up my mouse in the face of such stiff competition ……

Yours sincerely “grasshopper”.

What led to this strange reversal of fortune? At the time of this writing (Thursday, November 20th), Simon’s Star Trek widget leads the race with a 5-star rating and 22 votes, while Mike’s Rasta Widget has only 4 stars and 20 votes (surprising, because it draws content from the incredible Dub and Reggae social network.

The answer may lie in Mike’s late second entry, a Marissa Miller Harley Davidson motorcycle widget that may not look like much but allows users to embed their own YouTube video before adding the customized widget to their Myspace profile. Cheating cheater or Sun Tzu strategist? We don’t know! Widget Death Match is a no-holds-barred widget battle to the death, and in this round Mike has miraculously come out ahead. Condolences to Simon for the loss of his paradigm-shifting masterpiece widget.

Next Thursday is WDM Round 2: “Tricksy” Mike gets back in the ring with “Thirsty” John G, who will answer the question “is good hair enough?” Beer may make an appearance in one or more widgets, so bring your stein and a taste for blood!

Simon’s Star Trek Widget

Mike’s Rasta Widget

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