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.
Posted by gsiemens at March 23, 2007 08:23 AM | TrackBack