Comments on: Its’ a Widget World

By: Widgets won’t work without a plan

Widgets won’t work without a plan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:35:01 +0000

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By: Scott Hotes

Scott Hotes — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:55:57 +0000

Will it become “a widget world”, probably a little too early to tell. It’s never been clear that the web browser is the natural platform for all of our desktop services, including search. If search DOES move off of the browser, it may make things difficult for Google, Yahoo! etc. to deliver ads. Does this put their business model at risk?

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By: craigbuj

craigbuj — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:18:59 +0000

what is the business model at the end of the day for the meebo widget? integrate targeted advertising? what stops google, yahoo, and others from providing the same meebo like widget? It’s a great tool, but how will they make $ from it?

By: Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:09:04 +0000

And just so you have the link (link)
Thanks,
Ivan

By: steve

steve — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:24:53 +0000

Om, aren't you describing… Pointcast?

(Anybody remember Pointcast?)

By: Paul Owen

Paul Owen — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:47:50 +0000

Om, I didn’t know Mashery, your link lands to a single page.
On Digg I read about Webwag.com: (link) news/WebwagNewPersonalizedStart_Page
Did you know them you guys ?

By: Toivo Lainevool

Toivo Lainevool — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:01:49 +0000

Funny, this is the opposite of the direction I personally like things. I like to get as much information as I can WITHOUT leaving my browser. Web apps such as GMail, Writely, and Bloglines allow me to spend a lot of time within a single app.

By: Nick Ellis

Nick Ellis — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:17:09 +0000

Dear Om, I read your column on Business 2.0 and I agree with you in everything. Widgets are the future of the web.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:50:35 +0000

hey john,

looks like someone started to listen to you, though as most big companies, they are slow in getting on the bandwagon. i think very soon we could expect them to be real widgets, as your describe them. lets pray…eh!

By: John Evans

John Evans — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:00:19 +0000

I have been telling everyone who will listen that widgets would be a killer app on mobile phones, specifially Nokia phones. Widsets by Nokia is not what I was thinking though its a bit rubbish from a developer point of view IMHO.

I was thinking each widget would appear to be a real application on the phone and would be made with xhtml, css and JS with access to apis on the phone like how Dashboard in OS X can. Nokia has the Webcore and Javacore technologies they need to make it work they just seem so preoccupied with adding DRM to S60 v3.

By: Fergus Burns

Fergus Burns — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:00:38 +0000

Hi Om

Susan Mernit had a great post on this - (link)

It followed up from a post i did on “widget marketing” - (link)

Steve preferred to call it “picture in picture” - (link) inpict.html

Widgets present a great opportunity to bring RSS, microformats, etc to a much larget market.

Talk Soon
Fergus