Widgets Proliferation Continues: Now on Joost
Patrick April 7th, 2007
I wrote earlier that I expect serious, bankable business models to arise in the widget economy. Even if standalone widget businesses don’t qualify as investment capital-worthy enterprises, the use of widgets will play a key role in new technology products. One such example is Joost. What does Joost have to do with widgets, you ask? It turns out that Joost supports widgets of a sort.
It calls them widgets, anyway. While using Joost, you have the ability to view My Joost. A key element of My Joost is the ability to show or hide one or more of a small collection of widgets. These include Notice Board, News Ticker, Invite Friends, and Channel Chat, which allow you to engage in real-time text chats with other Joost users about the channel you are currently watching, sort of a real-time social network for watching television.
The Joost widgets only work when you are in full-screen mode, and they overlay the broadcast in an elegant, understated fashion. The number of widgets is rather limited today, but remember that Joost is only in beta. It seems likely that Joost has included widgets as a part of their product architecture so they can easily extend it in the future with new features delivered by the widget capability.
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