I had a play around with Wordpress at the weekend and more specifically how to create a Wordpress widget. As with most things when I learn something new I find it much easier to tackle the learning curve with a real task that will have an end result, rather than just read set of instructions.

So I searched around and found a very simple article on widget creation here:
http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2008/02/15/how-to-create-a-wordpress-wid....

The next thing was to think of a real world project to use so I decided to generate a Widget that displays the latest ShoZu uploads using the ShoZu provided feed for a user.

I have set up my own Wordpress site here where I have now installed the widget and also set up a page with some install instructions and a download of the code.

Next step is to do the same thing for a Drupal Block.

So a little more progress, I now have ShoZu video uploads working to my blog. The first attempt can be seen here. I have used an embedded quicktime wrapper to enable the videos that are uploaded to play and it seems to work OK from my Nokia N73 (using 3gp files). I still need to do some tests using mp4, but need to be careful on the file size as I have set up a small upload limit on my site.