Comments on: “VIBE” on Liferay. Does this portal need a portal? http://www.contenthere.net/2009/05/vibe-on-liferay-does-this-portal-need-a-portal.html Enter Content Here Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: seth http://www.contenthere.net/2009/05/vibe-on-liferay-does-this-portal-need-a-portal.html/comment-page-1#comment-1200 seth Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:41:11 +0000 http://www.contenthere.net/?p=1146#comment-1200 @david Thanks so much for your comment. I think the Google Gadget strategy is a great one. I would use the Liferay portal as a showcase for the gadgets that are available. Keep up the great (green) work! @david Thanks so much for your comment. I think the Google Gadget strategy is a great one. I would use the Liferay portal as a showcase for the gadgets that are available. Keep up the great (green) work!

]]> By: David Bergeron http://www.contenthere.net/2009/05/vibe-on-liferay-does-this-portal-need-a-portal.html/comment-page-1#comment-1181 David Bergeron Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:26:27 +0000 http://www.contenthere.net/?p=1146#comment-1181 Seth, Thanks for reviewing and blogging about the VIBE portal provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. We are striving to provide the general public and the decision makers in Washington a tool to showcase the research and development at the laboratories. VIBE is still in its infancy and the application is currently in beta. Your suggestion to focus on creating gadgets for popular sites like iGoogle and Facebook is a good one. In fact, that’s actually been part of our plan from the start (though we hadn’t yet publically discussed it until now). To that end, we’ve implemented nearly every item in VIBE as a Google Gadget. This means that they can be directly used in iGoogle or any other site which supports Google Gadgets (which includes most modern social networking sites, since they support OpenSocial—itself a superset of the Google Gadgets API). Unfortunately, Facebook does not currently support OpenSocial or Google Gadgets. So our current gadgets will not support it. But we do hope that changes in the future. We haven’t yet published all of our gadgets into the iGoogle gadget directory. But, as a starting point, I have just published four of our gadgets there: Alternative Fuel Station Locator, Transportation Incentives and Laws, Hybrid Vehicle Sales, and the Alternative Fuel Stations map. They’re fully searchable there via various queries, such as: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=nrel. The ultimate goal is to provide gadgets that showcase the work that NREL and related organizations are performing to develop clean, renewable sources of energy. Thanks, David Bergeron VIBE Application Developer, NREL Seth,
Thanks for reviewing and blogging about the VIBE portal provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. We are striving to provide the general public and the decision makers in Washington a tool to showcase the research and development at the laboratories. VIBE is still in its infancy and the application is currently in beta.
Your suggestion to focus on creating gadgets for popular sites like iGoogle and Facebook is a good one. In fact, that’s actually been part of our plan from the start (though we hadn’t yet publically discussed it until now). To that end, we’ve implemented nearly every item in VIBE as a Google Gadget. This means that they can be directly used in iGoogle or any other site which supports Google Gadgets (which includes most modern social networking sites, since they support OpenSocial—itself a superset of the Google Gadgets API). Unfortunately, Facebook does not currently support OpenSocial or Google Gadgets. So our current gadgets will not support it. But we do hope that changes in the future.
We haven’t yet published all of our gadgets into the iGoogle gadget directory. But, as a starting point, I have just published four of our gadgets there: Alternative Fuel Station Locator, Transportation Incentives and Laws, Hybrid Vehicle Sales, and the Alternative Fuel Stations map. They’re fully searchable there via various queries, such as: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=nrel.
The ultimate goal is to provide gadgets that showcase the work that NREL and related organizations are performing to develop clean, renewable sources of energy.

Thanks,

David Bergeron
VIBE Application Developer, NREL

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