Tuesday, July 26, 2005

A Widget or Two for Yahoo

I'm a little bit baffled by this one, but it seems sufficiently important that I am going to start this note here and track the development of Yahoo!'s "Widgets".
A Widget or Two for Yahoo: "'Widgets are basically whatever you want them to be,' said Pixoria founder Arlo Rose. Widgets are constructed via XML and can take advantage of user data, such as photos, Web content or system information. For example, the Seattle Traffic Cams Widget, built by Anthony Kirby, pulls images from the Washington state DOT Web site for the Puget Sound area. The eBay Feedback Watcher, created by William Warby, displays positive, negative and overall eBay (Quote, Chart) feedback ratings; when a new piece of feedback is posted, it displays the new feedback with a clickable link to the eBay item."

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