I’ve got 2 of these in the works at the current time. Both are fully functional but need a little design refinement.

1. Smalltalk generator. Remember this one? It spews out pretentious things to say at type conferences. I was hoping to release this before/at TypeCon but ended up being too busy running to and fro to get it out there.

2. Typophile RSS reader. This aggregates all feeds into one stream, but flip it over and you can set it to focus in one any particular group (General Discussions, wiki, etc)

What would be the killer widget? What does everyone want to see?

Instant messages? Is that possible?

Typowiki Widget...I already have a Wikipedia widget which is great but the Typowiki would be awesome!

I don’t know anything about programming, but would kill me would be an RSS-reader type thing that showed which threads had just gotten comments.

Basically, the Typophile tracker page:
http://typophile.com/tracker

Then I wouldn’t have to keep refreshing my browser…

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Instant messages? Is that possible?

Wow. If we’re going to go that far, I think iChat integration of the Typophile Messenger would be even better. (I like to dream big.)

(I like to dream big.)

How about a Typographica widget? Or a FontShop widget.

I’ve already started pestering at Linotype about one…

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Coming.

which one?

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What about birthday announcements?

How about TypeCon announcements?

ChrisL

TypeCon widget. Duh!

;-)

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Oh dear. A countdown to TypeCon06? Yikes. Please, not yet!

Rest easy Tiff, you barely emptied your luggage from New York!
So, who is all going to Boston next Summer? Tiff is starting her plans :-)

ChrisL

:^P

I’m going! It’s an hour from my house. This time I’ll have people to meet!

:^D Ok. I guess a countdown til TypeCon2006 Boston might be fun. Sort of. Reminds me of a countdown clock I had at Reading which quickly became a distraction as I worked furiously on my dissertation.

Cool idea, though I’d like to see some other bugs fixed first (like the fact that I can’t see the title of this thread...)

which browser are you using?

a typographica widget is coming? i had no idea. need to stay on top of these things i guess, huh stephen? sorry for being such a flake. I’d love to see the flipable/focusable RSS reader that Jared described, and a smalltalk generator would be fun too. I’d also like to see all images posted to Typophile automatically added to a (private?) flickr account - all the stuff from Critique, for instance.

JLT

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Typophile widget?

Could it make soft serve?

“which browser are you using?”

Firefox.