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What are SPUDs?

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What are SPUDs?

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SPUD stands for “single person urban dwelling,” which means that SPUDs are people who live alone in urban areas. The rise of single men and women around the world has led to a radical increase in singles in cities, because singles tend to congregate in urban areas. As a result, the demand for dwellings designed for single people is on the rise, with the SPUD demographic actually reshaping the architecture and landscape of cities all over the world. There are a wide variety of reasons to pursue a single lifestyle. In many cases, people are simply remaining single for longer periods of time after they complete their educations, choosing to live in urban areas to pursue careers and explore the rich cultural offerings available to residents of cities. In these instances, SPUDs may have an intention to pursue a serious long-term relationship at some point in the future, eventually moving in with someone else and perhaps having children. In other instances, people actively choose to be singl

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You’ve probably heard of widgets, also known as gadgets or docklets. The Trumba term for widget is “spud.” We chose the term spud somewhat facetiously as a play on the concept of “mashups.” A mashup is a web page that brings together content from more than one source. The IT world borrowed the term “mashup” from a hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs together to create a new song. A spud is actually a small piece of JavaScript™ code that retrieves event information stored on the Trumba servers. To display event information on your website, you copy and paste the spud code into your web pages (to create your own mashups). Spuds embedded into your web pages act like windows. What you see through these windows is your event information on the Trumba servers. The exact view depends upon the specific spud that you’re using. Because spuds are windows into your hosted data, changes you make in the Trumba Connect editing environment show up immediately on your site. To experience

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As you probably noticed, we mentioned spuds—also known as widgets, gadgets, or docklets—three times in the introduction above. Obviously, spuds play a key role in Trumba Connect. They play such a key role, in fact, that it’s accurate to describe the Trumba U website as a spud container. This page alone contains three spuds, Date Finder (upper right), Upcoming Vertical Crawler (directly right), and Upcoming Crawler (bottom of the page). Taking a look at these examples can help you understand what a spud is and does. You can see at a glance that spuds are event widgets, and that each spud displays event information in its own unique way. You can also see that the spuds have been customized to blend into the Trumba U website.

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