30 Amazing Things You Can Do With Widgets
Wie damals im Referat schon angekündigt, scheinen Widgets sich mehr und mehr durchzusetzen. Dazu ein interessanter Artikel:
Quietly and without a lot of fanfare, the number of desktop and web widgets (also called gadgets) has exploded. There are almost 10,000 Web widgets for the Google Personalized Home Page and a bunch more that run in Google Desktop. The Windows Live Gallery has over 500 gadgets that are for Windows Vista and Live.com. (This will surely pick up once Vista launches. After all Microsoft invented the widget.) Meanwhile, Apple has 2400+ widgets and Yahoo has another 4000. Finally, we have widgets for Netvibes, Protopage and your mobile device from providers like Mobidgets, Widsets and Bluepulse. (Edelman is assisting with the PR for the launch of Windows Vista.)