Yo! A New Widget Baby in the Town!

Avinash · 11-10-2006, 05:47 AM

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Fox Interactive Media will announce a new widget platform called SpringWidgets on Monday morning at the Widgets Live Conference in San Francisco. It is a unique offering in the increasingly complicated widget space, although the desktop portion of it only works on the Windows platform.

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Each widget can be embedded on a website or placed on a desktop. And they are easily shared, so if a website visitor sees a widget they like they can click a link and add it to their own site, or their desktop, or both. That’s an important innovation, and a useful one for websites. For example, a blog could include a widget on the site that shows the RSS feed for the blog. Loyal readers could download the widget to their desktop.

Source: Tech Crunch

I've been playing with this new widget system since the morning. It's a really really amazing widget system. I'm gonna read the development docs to create a widget for my blog.

To read more about this new Widget system, visit this link.

cldnails · 11-10-2006, 07:32 AM

That's pretty slick, but don't see it replacing my RSS reader.

Avinash · 11-10-2006, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by cldnails

That's pretty slick, but don't see it replacing my RSS reader.

I know it is not THAT powerful because it's a newly born baby.

Did you like the widgets? I do hope for good improvements. The RSS widget has lack of features but as I've read on the Widget page, they are gonna add many new features in this widget.

Anyways, it's pretty much better than Google widgets. Google Widgets don't look graphically rich, do they?