I love the badges on the flexexamples.com and was disappointed to see there was no online creator that did as good of a job. Being the lazy programmer that I am I am thinking it would be nice to create an air app that pulls the favicon and allows you to resize and position it (or select one from your HD), specify a bg color or gradient and save…

while i’m making a list if things to do, why not generate all of that to an online repository and include title and description – so that when you save one – all of the badges you have created are saved as entries with title and description – any you are given an embed code for a flash app that has all of your badges with some neat sliding interaction to reveal the number of times that has been clicked on and your title and description. choose title and description, and you’re off!

the badges could be aligned using the modulus functions (to determine the number of columns). the user could specify bg color(s)/image, width and header color (with on or off). save all created images to an s3 account, and you can then notify the friends of yours on your blog roll how many times their badge has been displayed, clicked for more info, and how many users have come their way via the badge.

the important thing will be to keep the look and feel n the user’s realm – and only associate with a url so that stats can be kept for that url…

MKTG: send out an email at every 100th click giving a synopsis of the recent stats – for 10.00 per year, the user can see a full detailed report and or have one emailed to them.

badges – web2.0 glossy, betaBurst, text, or pixel.
options – icon, icon location, bg colors, text, outline, outline position (inset or outset?)

small info button on the lower right, when clicked gives full info on the location and terms of the software.

What the hell, let’s pull the last 10 RSS entries when more info is requested for a badge!

store all of this as a flat file dB on amazon, and you have barely any server costs – all processing would take place on the user’s computer (possible to manipulate , save an upload via flex?)

benefits: one set of badges, that can be placed on multiple sites, and when design of the site changes, all you have to do is re-save with new BG colors…