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Widget – Tutorial

Widgets are increasingly popular on both web sites…and desktops. A very practical, introductory overview: Using widgets to build community (done using SplashCast). Widgets are small pieces of code, serving a single function – displaying weather, notifying blog visitors your online for chat, news feeds, calendar…Yahoo has a library of thousands of widgets (Google/Microsoft call them gadgets). Most widgets are quite easy to install – Google for example, allolws users to click and select a widget, and it’s added to their personalized home page.