Weekly Widget Wroundup
Patrick May 6th, 2007
Today marks the beginning of a new feature on idgetsWay: a weekly widget wroundup of some of the most noteworthy news items in the widget world from the previous week.
- Clearspring serves 3 billionth widget, and the company is now serving 60 million widgets per day.
- Google brands its personalized “gadgetized” homepage as “iGoogle.” I’ll have more to say about this later.
- Google was busy in widgets. They also announced Gadget Ads, widgets in ad-standard sizes and delivered through their advertising platform. Niall wrote a really good post about this development.
- Another of the big Internet companies, eBay also got busy with widgets, launching eBay To Go, a tool for creating widgets out of auction items. At first glance, these seem to be really well implemented.
- As reported by MacNN, Apple has filed patents dealing with how to run multiple instances of Dashboard, or collections of widgets.
I’ll attempt a more detailed analysis on each of these in the coming days.
Technorati Tags: widgets, gadgets, Clearspring, Google, iGoogle, Gadget Ads, eBay, eBay To Go, Apple, Dashboard
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