User-created add-ons!

07/14/2008 18:30:00 6:30pm July 14th, 2008 By webon.team

Today we're unveiling a new feature that we've been working on for quite a while: user-created add-ons. These add-ons use the OpenSocial API, an emerging standard for socially-enabled gadgets supported by folks like Google, MySpace, and Yahoo!

What does this mean for you?

If you're a site builder, you'll ultimately have a much larger library of add-ons to use with your site. You'll be able to choose both from the add-ons we develop and from the add-ons shared with the Webon community by developers. In addition, these user-created add-ons can take advantage of user profiles, friends lists, and other social features.

If you're a developer, you can now extend your site's functionality by creating custom add-ons. What's more, you can easily share your creations, giving them a larger audience than they otherwise would have. And because our add-ons use the OpenSocial API, you don't need to learn a proprietary language to create them.

This is all part of our goal of making Webon a user-extensible platform, not one that's defined solely by us. If you'd like to try your hand at creating an add-on, check out this early peek at our Add-On Editor. After you've saved an add-on, it'll be available the next time you edit a site; just select "my add-ons" from the pulldown menu in the Add-Ons window.

Please note: we don't yet support the entire OpenSocial API (version 0.8 to be precise), and we're still working on developer documentation. But we wanted to let you start playing around with the editor so that you could give us feedback.

Enjoy!

Tags: add-ons, development, features, philosophy

Comments (21) | Leave a comment

Posted by anonymous August 1st, 2008

my name is agusdoank

. Iwant to say all team webon sites for all style .Thanks a lot

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Posted by anonymous August 7th, 2008

I love the idea of user-created add-ons, yet when I go to add one to my site I have access to exactly one. Surely, there are more than 1? But why aren't they showing up?

Posted by iiijohn2 August 10th, 2008

Thank you for your add-ons. Add-ons are an improvement! Thanks again.

Posted by anonymous August 18th, 2008

hello...

Posted by anonymous August 22nd, 2008

Olá,

Meu pagina do Orkut não está carregando a foto de apresentação estou no momento sem foto, quero incluir foto no perfil mais não consigo, por favor, me ajude.

Meu e-mail cadastrado no Orkut é vanis.nessinha@bol.com.br

Grata

Vanessa Sanges

Posted by anonymous August 26th, 2008

Do you intend to support OpenSocial RESTful API?

Author Comment Posted by webon.team August 28th, 2008

In response to ML: Yes, we do. We hope to make that public in the not-too-distant future.

Posted by anonymous September 6th, 2008

How can I change the font?place a code in my page?

Author Comment Posted by webon.team September 8th, 2008

To change the font for a snippet of text, highlight the text you'd like to change, then click the Advanced Font Options icon in the toolbar. (That's the one in the top row that looks like two A's overlapping.) You'll then see options to change the font, size, color, and style.

If you'd like to change the font across your entire site, you'll probably want to customize your site's style. Click on Styles to open the Style window, then click Customize to launch the Style Editor. From there you'll be able to change the fonts used anywhere in your site's base style.

Posted by anonymous September 17th, 2008

Beautiful style options, easy to use, change navigate ect, Webon Rocks!!

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Posted by njtristan January 22nd, 2009

Hi, I'm Niraja from Sri Lanka. Webon's service is great ! The new user-created add-ones will be great too, I hope. If any one of you wanna know how to make internet faster while having fun, visit : oldjunk.webonsites.com . (I'm Still not completely finished with it but you may visit it) - Niraja

Posted by njtristan January 22nd, 2009

Hi I'm Niraja. I just want to say this to Hansani( If you are here). I love you very much dear. please don't break my heart. (And I'm also inviting you to build your own site at webon)

Love, Niraja