I asked our developers here at Jive to respond to the following in 15 seconds or less: tell me your craziest idea for how to improve Clearspace.  Here is what they came up with, but make sure you hang around for the bloopers at the end!

 

 

Or download the Quicktime movie (~58MB)

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New Widgets

Posted by Aaron Johnson Jan 10, 2008

In a future release of Clearspace we're talking about adding a personalized homepage feature, much like My.Yahoo.com or Google.com/ig, where users can add Clearspace widgets like 'Recent Content' or 'Top Members' to their homepage. A lot of the widgets that we debuted in the 'customize a community' feature (have you seen the video?) will be available for users on the homepage, but we'd like to hear from you: assuming you had a customizable homepage and you could use Clearspace like you use My.Yahoo.com or Google.com/ig, what widgets (Clearspace related or unrelated) would make your day?

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If you are looking for an easy way to display slide shows in Clearspace, we have a SlideShare Macro plugin that lets anyone display a slide show presentation in documents, blog posts, and threads.

 

You can use this plugin to display SlideShare presentations, but it also provides a simple example code to illustrate how you can use a plugin to display media from other online sources in Clearspace as embedded content. You can learn more about the plugin or just download the code from svn.

 

A quick example:

 

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