Gadgets and Widgets
XWiki lets you easily add HTML and other kind of code that will be displayed into wiki pages. You can find HTML code from these various websites :
| Available Gadgets Sorted By Type | |
- You can retrieve XWiki specific code from the Code Zone on XWiki.org.
- You can add Flash Objects to your pages following the process described there.
Basics of HTML
| Tag Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| iframe? | | Show content coming from another website inside the pages of your own instance of XWiki | +++++ |
| embed? | | Display music and video inside your pages | +++++ |
| script? | | Add nice animations and graphics to your pages | ++++ |
Video
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| You Tube? | youtube.com | To publish your videos online, and display them in you netcipia page | +++++ |
| Dailymotion? | Dailymotion.com | Same as Youtube, but the 10-minutes limit is replaced with a 150MB max size for uploaded files | +++++ |
| Google Video? | video.google.com | The video service from Google, you can embed their players inside XWiki pages | ++++ |
| VPod? | VPod.tv | Another video sharing website. Same principle as usual : upload or choose a video, then display the player inside your XWiki page | +++ |
| Zippy Videos? | zippyvideos.com | Guess what ? This website offers you to upload your videos, share them with your friends and embed your stuff in a player on your XWiki | +++ |
| Blip tv? | http://blip.tv/">Blip.tv | Upload your videos, store and share them, create your own dashboard -> another YouTube copy | +++ |
Music
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Radio Blog Club? | Radio.Blog.Club.com | Embed a player with the music you like in your wiki pages | +++++ |
| Streampad Player? | streampad.com | Easily embed a mp3 player in your pages, just give it an url from where the music will come (you can easily do that by attaching your music to your pages), will work only with URL coming from an open wiki | ++++ |
Pictures
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| XWiki Photo Album? | path: /xwiki/bin/view/Photos/ | XWiki has an integrated Photo Album Application your can use to create your own albums | +++ |
| Flickr? | Flickr.com | You can embed images in your wiki pages, either as a small slideshow or as a map with geolocated images | ++++ |
| Slide? | Slide.com | Create and customize a slideshow with the pictures you like and display it inside your page. Very cool tool ! | +++++ |
| Bubble Share? | Bubbleshare.com | Create your own slideshow, add audio comments and publish it on your wiki page ! Pretty cool... | ++++ |
Office Productivity
Social Stuff
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Del icio us? | Del.ico.us Website | Embed your tag clouds in your pages, let people see what are your del.icio.us tags easily | ++++ |
| Digg? | Digg.com | Display Digg tools (such as "Digg This") on your Netcipia Place | ++ |
| My Blog Log? | mybloglog.com | Display a list of the last readers (with picture) of your XWiki / Blog. Easily embed a piece of html in a page or a panel | +++ |
| XWiki Last Members Panel | Panels Space | Once set up, displays a list with a picture of the last 10 members regfistered on your XWiki instance | ++++ |
Repertories of Widgets and Gadgets
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Widget Box? | widgetbox.com | Create your own widget panels with the applications you like and easily embed them on your wiki pages. Great variety of widgets available, a first-class resource although it requires about 20 minutes to understand how it works (ok, at least in my case ;) | +++++ |
| Google Gadgets? | Google Gadgets Website | Another really good resource to find gadgets for your pages, although it uses the Google revenue model (ie, there is ads under almost every gadget) | ++++ |
Calendars
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| XWiki Calendar? | path: /xwiki/bin/view/Main/EventCalendar | XWiki has a easy-to-use, rather crude but efficient built-in calendar application. You can use it to easily organize events. | +++ |
| 30 Boxes Calendar? | 30boxes.com | To display a calendar inside your page | ++ |
| Google Calendar? | calendar.google.com | To display Google Calendar in your pages, requires using an iframe tag (don't worry, that's easy ;-) | +++ |
Earn Money on your XWiki
Live Communication
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Meebo? | meebo.com | To embed a chat window in any of your wikis | +++ |
| Gabbly? | gabbly.com | Embed a chatroom applet in any page - doesn't require MSN, AIM etc. | ++ |
| Geesee? | Geesee.com | Basically, the idea is to embed a live chat in the page you'd like to. Works as the one just above. Beta version | +++ |
| Skype? | Skype Buttons | Embed a button that lets others contact you through your Skype account. You can choose the button to display your status or not. Quite useful contact tool ! | ++++ |
| Online Status? | onlinestatus.org | Display an icon showing your status (online, away...). Works for numerous messenging applications (AIM, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Skype...) | ++++ |
Forums
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Nabble? | Nabble.com | Start a forum dealing with any topic you like and display it inside one of your pages using an iframe tag. Easy and efficient ! | ++++ |
Groups
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Google Groups? | groups.google.com | If your community already has a Google group, it can be quite easily embedded inside one of your XWiki pages using an iframe. Have fun ! | ++++ |
| Yahoo! Groups? | groups.yahoo.com | This trick works quite well with Yahoo! groups too. Put your group inside your page and enjoy ! | ++++ |
| MSN Groups? | groups.msn.com | Works the same way than the above, does the same things… But I did not want to create jealousy between them ;-) | ++++ |
Others
| Name | Web Site | Description | Rating |
|---|
| Slide Share? | slideshare.net | To publish a powerpoint or openoffice slides online, and display a slideshow inside you netcipia page | +++++ |
| Plazes? | Plazes.com | A badge that displays on a worldmap the plazes where you could have been seen during the last few days | +++ |
| Dandelife? | Dandelife.com | Create a widget that will display a timeline of your recent events. You enter your events and they are displayed on the timeline | ++ |
| Zoho Polls? | ZohoPolls.com | A website that lets you build easily a poll and add it to your page. Useful if you want people to vote on something. | +++ |
| Answers? | Answers.com | Let people find the definition and information on any word simply by double-clicking on it on your XWiki | +++ |
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