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Widgets

Google announced on their blog, a new Google Homepage API for their personalized home pages that allows users to create custom widgets. Some of their own, and 3rd party widgets can be found in the gallery.

Yahoo had recently announced an upgraded widget engine built on Konfabulator that Yahoo had acquired earlier. Unlike Google's and Microsoft's live.com (covered earlier), Yahoo's widget engine runs on the desktop rather than in a browser .. exactly like Mac OS X dashboard widgets. Yahoo incidentally is also offering a Mac version of their widget engine.

Google's widgets discussed on Slashdot here, Yahoo's here.

UPDATE: Google widgets also covered on Techcrunch. 

Posted by rishabh on December 14, 2005 10:12 AM |

Comments

Read your site about Google Widgets. I have written my first widget that is a comparison shopping widget. You can get the xml link to add the module at my blog: http://techgadgets.blogspot.com

Posted by: Dennis | December 17, 2005 07:37 PM

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