Greed: Big News

In my last post, I mentioned the big marketing push going on here at Fognl, and the goal of using pictures to increase the impact of a given post. The idea is to use pictures to reinforce the message. In the last Greed update, there were several noteworthy, but somewhat small, updates. A picture of several kittens lined up in a row seemed like an appropriate way to really drive the message home. (Also, a picture of kittens was pretty easy to find.)

This time, there's only one noteworthy item, and it's bigger. Thus, the following:



The big news is a widget. Greed now has its own widget, in case you want one.

To create a new Greed widget, just do what you normally do to create one, and you'll see a Greed item on the Widgets menu.



Select that item then select either the feed, label, or state you want to see in the widget from the feed selector screen.



Then, um... There's the widget.



The widget updates once per hour, and shows the most recent headline in the chosen feed. You can create as many Greed widgets as you want, with a separate feed in each one. When you touch a widget, it loads the article list for the feed it's watching so you can read all the items.

For now, there's only one widget size. I'm thinking of creating a "tiny" widget as well, which may just show unread counts or something. This wide one seems to take up a fair amount of space.

Well, that's all for now, enjoy the widget...