Weekly Blog Parts: Uniqlo UT loop

Written by: Michael Keferl on May 18, 2008 at 12:08 pm | In Marketing & Ad Trends, Technology & Gadget Trends | No Comments

Coming off of last year’s popular UniQlock blog parts, casual retail giant UniQlo has made a nifty little widget that you can customize with your own “beats” from their library. The UT loop has lot of claps, laughs, and other snippets to piece together with your keypad. Then, upload and share.

I made one under the name CScoutJapan, but it won’t embed correctly because Firefox and Wordpress, despite my love of both, do not reciprocate my affections.

Tags: Blog Parts, Uniqlo, widgets
Category: Marketing & Ad Trends, Technology & Gadget Trends
Other categories: Fashion & Lifestyle Trends, Press coverage

Weekly Blog Parts - FLO:Q from Sony

Written by: Michael Keferl on April 16, 2008 at 2:30 pm | In Technology & Gadget Trends | No Comments

Sony’s FLO:Q widget service has come a long way and provides a great depth of content and customizable options for personal blog part widgets. There are standard widgets such as the LOHAS one below, but also more interactive gaming widgets like this one for Spiderwick no Nazo. To create a personal widget as I did below, it’s possible to integrate a large variety of content including photos, flash games, video, RSS feeds, Amazon products, books, music, and others, allowing users to centralize a great deal of their own content into a small part of the sidebar.

Tags: Blog Parts, FLO:Q, Sony, widgets
Category: Technology & Gadget Trends
Other categories: Marketing & Ad Trends, Fashion & Lifestyle Trends, Press coverage

Weekly Blog Parts: iTunes, Sakura, and Yume Neko

Written by: Michael Keferl on April 2, 2008 at 4:51 pm | In Marketing & Ad Trends, Technology & Gadget Trends | No Comments

Today we’re starting a weekly series of our favorite “Blog Parts” (ブログパーツ), the name given to all of the strange and wonderful widgets made for the blog-hungry Japanese public (See the Uniqlo Uniqlock).

The iTunes Weekly Chart blog part highlights the top tracks of the week in iTunes Japan.

Even though the cherry blossoms are already beginning to fall off here in Tokyo, they’re peaking elsewhere in Japan despite the recent chilly weather. Sakura Clock shows you the time, but don’t touch the cherry blossoms or they’ll fall off…over and over again.

Remember Yume Neko, the robotic cat? Now the Dream Cat has its own blog part to go along with the DS game from Sega.

Tags: Blog Parts, iTunes, Sakura, Uniqlock, widgets, Yume Neko
Category: Marketing & Ad Trends, Technology & Gadget Trends
Other categories: Fashion & Lifestyle Trends, Press coverage