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23 Jun 2006
Widget services ramping up
Read/Write Web notes the increasing importance of widgets. Basically a widget is an user interface to some data somewhere on the web. One can see these widgets on computers, such as MacOSX. But now also on web-pages. I do not quite get it why they are becoming so popular now. Widgets are nothing new. We have had them around for a long time. Think of counters, weather, chat, etc. Naturally RSS does help a lot and I assume that many widgets are just specific interfaces for a specific RSS-feed. At least that is what I see on the Mac. Now that I am using Sandvox to create some of my web-site, I started to widgets more fully. I use them to access Del.icio.us and Flickr. And the interface is very simple. Widgets are a great way of mashing multiple MicroContent Types. This is either done by the web-site developer or by the end-user, as in personalised pages.[Inspiration Read/Write Web]