January 17th, 2008 . by Liz
On the Answers.com Widget Gallery, which you have undoubtedly visited and used at least 742512346062 times by now, you may have noticed that we used RSS to build the various widgets.
And that’s where Dapper, “The Data Mapper,” came in and swept us off our feet. Dapper “aims to make it easy and possible for anyone to extract and reuse content from any website.”
Essentially, you can take content from anywhere on the web and create your own RSS feeds, flash widgets, Facebook applications, and more, using Dapper’s step-by-step process.
We worked closely with the Dapper folks as we developed our own widgets, and by ‘worked closely,’ I mean bugged them with questions and showered them with compliments.
So, thanks Dapper guys, for “feeding us” our menu of Facebook apps and Blogger, Vox and HTML widgets!

Hey, it’s WikiAnswers on Facebook!
P.S.: Get a Dapper-inspired Facebook app of no.stupid.answers and read us from your profile.
Posted in Company love: What everyone else is saying about us…
Tags: Blogger • Dapper • facebook • RSS • Vox • widget gallery • widgets
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January 14th, 2008 . by Liz

Ahem! Announcement! Attention, please!
Now you can proudly display your favorite questions and answers by topic on your blog, website, desktop, Facebook, personal homepage and more.
Generate your own Answers.com and WikiAnswers widgets to embed in your favorite platforms with the brand new Widget Gallery.
Personalize your widgets to display:
Word of the Day | Wine Word of the Day | Today in History | Technology Q&A | Environment Q&A | Health Q&A | Law Q&A | Sports Q&A | Travel Q&A… and more.
Are you a tech blogger? Display updated technology Q&A on your blog’s sidebar. Sports fans can get the latest sports questions delivered straight to their personal homepage. The nutrition-conscious can feed their Facebook with healthy-diet Q&A.
Widgets can be customized to appear on:
Blogger | Wordpress | Facebook | iGoogle | Netvibes | Yahoo | Apple Dashboard | Vista | RSS | Windows Live… and more.
See the full Widget Gallery.
Posted in What's new: Highlighting the latest from Answers.com and WikiAnswers.
Tags: Apple • blog • Blogger • bloggers • facebook • feeds • iGoogle • Netvibes • Q&A • RSS • third party • Vista • widget • widget gallery • Windows • wordpress • Yahoo
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