The Internet is HUGE

In December, I took a job with a NY-based interactive agency called HUGE, with offices in Brooklyn, Sweden and LA. I’m part of a team that’s doing rich front-end development for a Disney website. When I started they had just launched a travel portal that implements some pretty nice Google maps customization, which you can see here (click "Map It!") and here.

For the next phase, we’re helping Disney build a social networking site, and I’ve been tasked with figuring out how to build widgets. For the benefit of my family members over 30, widgets are small, self-contained content modules or applications that users can add or remove to thier personal profiles, customizing their experience on a website. Check out netvibes or iGoogle for good examples.

So I’ve spent a lot of time recently prototyping drag & drop widgets. Drag this paragraph around for a very simple drag & drop demo (using the YUI JavaScript library). No, really — click this paragraph and drag it around. This example is very basic. I'll show you something a little fancier in a future post.