Wijard

October 31 is a special day, and an even more special evening: Halloween. In 2008, October 31 is especially special: Wijard will be launched!

The minicard-ready image is due to: Justin, who took the original photo; Creative Commons, under which he made it available for remixing; Flickr, where he published it; and Picnik, with which I edited it.

I should point out that the image has yet to be Wijard-ized. It’s been cropped to the proportions of a minicard, but the crop has yet to be incorporated into a widget. As I said, launch is two days away…

The name Wijard is a mashup of widget and card. The widget platform is Clearspring. The cards are MOO MiniCards. That said, please note that this post describes the state of the Wijard just before launch, and that business cards and other products may well be available in the future.

Wijard lives at Bluehost. Most Wijard content, including the current post, is managed using WordPress, with some of the photo content managed using Flickr and edited using Picnik.

Behind the Wijard curtain are a bunch of other services, such as Backpack for lightweight organization and Highrise for contact management.

In order to map out Wijard – what it is, what it needs to include at launch, what will be added later – Mindmeister has proved very useful. In fact, the first post at this blog features a map created using Mindmeister.

You might have noticed that many of the above links are affiliate links. The WijardCo business model is based on affiliate programs and other partnerships. There are no current plans for ads.