A Gadget For Good: Why You Should Love Windows Vista, Even If You Are Still With XP

[SabrinaDeep]

So you want to know what is going to be the next big thing in the world of porn. And you want to know it first in order to jump in the train before it goes too fast. Unfortunately, i can't help you, because i don't know that myself. At the end of the day, we are never sure of what is gonna be the next big thing until that train is already passing under our nose at high speed. Intuition is what lets some lucky people to be ready to jump in that train before they even hear the noise of it approaching. So, all i can do, and i will do it happily, is to share my intuition about something with you and to leave it to you if it's a good one or a bad one.

But, let's start from the goods carried by that train. What if you could potentially reach 200,000,000 users with your adult products and services? I know...there is the Internet which gives you already the chance to reach 1 billion of potential customers. But what if i told you that those 200,000,000 of users would not have to find your services and products surfing the web? What if i told you that they would have them right in front of their eyes all day long, with no spamming whatsoever, that they would love to interact and would interact with them and that they would even market them for you through viral marketing for free?

Welcome to the world of Windows Vista and its Sidebar Gadgets capabilities! The new Windows Vista, although it has been released with a streak of bugs as per Microsoft tradition, it was already installed in 40,000,000 of personal computers at the beginning of April and it is estimated to be on 200,000,000 of PCs by the end of the year. The new Microsoft OS comes with a new feature called Sidebar which is a resident side-bar (lol) on the desktop helping users to organize theit gadgets.

What Are Gadgets?

Gadgets are easy-to-use mini programs that give users information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.
As users use their computer to access information, perform tasks, and interact with software, they may at times feel like they're facing information-overload. They have to open a web browser just to check the weather, open an application to view their calendar, or, for staying within the adult business, accessing a members area with their browser, in order to check if there have been any updates. Now, with Windows Sidebar and its associated mini-applications called gadgets, the specific information they need is at their fingertips, in front of their eyes, 24/7.

So, How Can Gadget Benefit Me?

Let me talk about how they benefit me and my affiliates.
I have developed a gadget which lets users spy on my life 24/7 and lets my affiliates convert their traffic better. If you look at the below picture, you can see how my gadget looks and works alike.



What you cannot see is that users who will click on the picture of the day, on the live shows counter and on the chat icon can be redirected to my website with my affiliates' AFFILIATE CODE.

Basically, with my gadget i put my promo material with added value (i let them know in real time when i am on chat, on msn, when i have done my last update, when my next live webcam show is gonna happen etc.) directly in the users' desktop, every day, 24/7.
Althought i am probably the first sponsor in the adult industry to exploit such a marketing tool, this will soon become a standard because of the obvious benefits for both the webmasters and the users: the users can literally spy on their favourite chicks life and even get free content directly on their desktop: think about it...users sits in front of their computer and get to know that their favourite pornstar is taking a shower, right now, directly from her or that she is on chat waiting for them to come in and have some cyber...all dressed with some original photographic material and with the chance to click on it and reach the pornstar in chat in a second, straight from their computer desktop...what a powerful marketing tool is that for a sponsor!

On the other side, webmasters can equally, greatly benefit from it: think of building a gadget, as i did, that carries a webmaster affiliate code, every time a user interact with it and visits the model website, or her chat room or looks at the photographic material. The webmaster has just to promote the gadget, forgetting updates and sales text, because all that will be taken care by the sponsor and shot directly in front of the user on their windows desktop: all the webmaster has to do is to offer the free download of the gadget from their websites. Once the users have downloaded it and added it to their Windows Vista Sidebar, it stays there, 24/7, until the users decide to eventually uninstall it. If you are a webmaster reading this, i am sure that you are already seeing the greatness of such a promo tool also from a cookies point of view, aren't you ;-)

But that's not all: think viral! No matter if you are a sponsor or a webmaster, your users will be allowed to redistribute the gadget online and to their friends freely. This means that the gadget with your affiliate code will reach a much larger audience than the one that you have at your websites!

The possibilities are endless and only your fantasy can limit them. If you want to know how a Gadget technically works and how to build one, you may want to have a look at

http://microsoftgadgets.com/Sidebar/...tOverview.aspx
and
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/463.aspx

I can anticipate that Microsoft have done a pretty great job about it and that the basic development and deployment is pretty easy, if you know basic html and if you know how to zip-compress a file and a directory. Of course, in order to build a dynamic Gadget with some neat features and which updates on-the-fly can be a bit more complicated and it requires some knowledge of PHP and Java or other script languages. I hope that this has
been useful and don't hesitate to contact me to let me know what you think about it.

[BanFilth]

interesting

be interesting to see if serfers would use them.

i removed all the ones on vista, as i do not like them.

[hardcoreblogger]

this is a fucking brilliant idea, sabrina, you rock!!

[Kappi]

Great idea Sabrina. You might also look into other gadget engines (or whatever they are called). There's a lot of programs that make the use of gadgets in XP possible.

[finike]

Very interesting point, Sabrina. Thank you for sharing it!

[CoolJay]

I guess it's too late to marry you?

Awesome, your finger is on the pulse

[SabrinaDeep]

Thanks Kappi! I am working on other engines versions indeed. i just need 2 weeks holidays first eheheh

Cooljay, it is definetely too late to marry me, but a dinner together is always possible :-)

[Hentaikid]

Interesting, doesn't mac have the same sort of thing?

[slaxxx]

Originally Posted by HentaiKid

Interesting, doesn't mac have the same sort of thing?

Yes...on a mac, they're called Dashboard Widgets. Awfully similar name, don't you think?

Same thing really, just an small html page that looks like a mini app. It's cool what Sabrina has done though, embedding affiliate codes in it.

[Mihx]

Originally Posted by slaxxx

Yes...on a mac, they're called Dashboard Widgets. Awfully similar name, don't you think?

Same thing really, just an small html page that looks like a mini app. It's cool what Sabrina has done though, embedding affiliate codes in it.

Yeah, but to continue our little Win vs. Mac war , Apple weren't exactly the first ones to do this stuff either - Konfabulator (now Yahoo Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com/ ) was, according to the info I could find, originally released for both Windows and Mac back in early 2003, and Dashboard Widgets didn't see the light of the day until 2005.

Everyone is "borrowing" from everyone when it comes to software development (which I personally think is a great thing as it usually benefits the end users), so even though Apple have often been quicker to implement some more or less nifty features than MS, they can't exactly claim originality either in several cases.

[slaxxx]

Originally Posted by Mihx

Apple weren't exactly the first ones to do this stuff either - Konfabulator (now Yahoo Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com/ ) was, according to the info I could find, originally released for both Windows and Mac back in early 2003, and Dashboard Widgets didn't see the light of the day until 2005.

Actually, macs have had something similar to widgets since 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Accessory

Originally Posted by Mihx

Everyone is "borrowing" from everyone when it comes to software development (which I personally think is a great thing as it usually benefits the end users), so even though Apple have often been quicker to implement some more or less nifty features than MS, they can't exactly claim originality either in several cases.

That is certainly true, but it's just one more example where Microsoft ripped off Apple and used a ridiculously similar name (Dashboard Widget -> Sidebar Gadget)

[Mihx]

Originally Posted by slaxxx

Actually, macs have had something similar to widgets since 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Accessory



That is certainly true, but it's just one more example where Microsoft ripped off Apple and used a ridiculously similar name (Dashboard Widget -> Sidebar Gadget)

Damn! Okay, you win this round .

[slaxxx]

pwnt

[tolik]

not bad idea as for me.

[Fking]

sounds pretty good
please let us know how is it going

[Stooly]

That is a pretty good idea Sabrina, I think as a surfer I'd like something like this. Although, with the amount of spam out there, some of them might be a little weary of it.

[LerWick]

sounds like an interesting idea.

[SabrinaDeep]

103 downloads since i posted a download post/link on my blog, 3 hours ago

I want to remember everybody that a personalized version with their own affiliate code is available to all my affiliates, from my webmasters protected area.