Comments on: NPR Launches Open API, offers Widgets

By: robert

robert — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:51 +0000

Nice work. We are building a new site on WordPress, and it would be great to use this widget, but it would need to be vertically oriented to work in more narrow columns. Even in the square graphic above, you can see what is missing in a narrow scaling.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:26:17 +0000

I like this widget, and can I just tell you how much I want to be able put it on my iPhone and use my touchscreen to move from point to point on this globe? I have NPR app, but I enjoy the idea of searching for stories by region and would really enjoy utilizing my screen. If it happens I will be one of the first to load it up and get to readin’!

By: Dale Hobson

Dale Hobson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:11:29 +0000

Hi Geoff–

Me likey–nice work. What would make this a real killer for NPR station sites like ours would be if you integrated the NPR API topic selector into the widget. Default could be the generic news, but then you could load in any slice of the API. OOOHH–makes me shiver.

By: sergei

sergei — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:47:41 +0000

Nice!
But, please, add in tooltip the name of article – would like to skip opening an article if not interested in the topic.
Is there an option to rotate the globe without clicking the location point?

By: geoff

geoff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:07:11 +0000

It’s more a pulsing than a blinking.. but I think I could downplay it a bit more. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:58:12 +0000

Interesting widget… While the geo based UI is very cool and fun to use… the flashing location indicator is really distracting from the actual news content… I would recommend down playing the blinking while the article is up. In all UI’s blinking=annoying.

By: geoff

geoff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:04:04 +0000

Thanks JD!

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:47:19 +0000

Hey, congrats! That’s nice validation of your work!

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