Content Owner Branding

A lot of you may have noticed that we like to talk about giving control to content owners to decide how their content can be used with Dapper. We often cite this as one of the many things that differentiates Dapper from “screen scraping” or other non-network based tools. Well, we just took yet another step toward making sure content that is part of a Dapp retains the branding of its owner in the form of our Google Gadget.

If you make (or use) one of these cool little things, you’ll notice that we’ve added the owner url and faveicon to the right side of the Gadget (note: our Universal Widget also has had this url branding since its release).

Google Gadget Goodness!

In our ongoing efforts to improve your Google Gadgeting experience (you iGooglers, you), we’ve released yet another update to the Google Gadget.  This time around we’ve added support for images.  So now you can take images from all over the web and put them in your favorite Google services.

Enjoy!

PageFlakes and Better Google Gadgets

PageFlakes users rejoice!  We’ve released a transformer for PageFlakes which should make integration with your start page easier.  To try it out, find any Dapp and select PageFlake from the drop down.

Today we also improved the Google Gadget transformer to include support for omitting labels, adding an input form into the gadget, and various visual improvements.  You can use Google Gadgets on iGoogle, Google Desktop, or on any website.

Please let us know if you find any problems or have any features you’d like to see implemented.  We promise more updates are on the way.