I am continuing Libraries 2.1 to see what other wonders are out there. Thing 26, a site called Yourminis allows you to add widgets to your website. A widget is a little program, an applet, that does something. Apparently, if you have the know how, you can create these widgets for anyone to use.
Many of the widgets on Yourminis were fairly silly. There are a variety of clocks, calendars, feeds from videos, mp3 players and the like. I liked the phases of the moon and added that. So I guess if I'm too busy to look at the moon (or it is cloudy), I'll know what it looks like.
My favorite widget is actually from Meebo (a site that consolidates all the Instant Messaging services so you can talk to everyone from one log in). You can place the widget on any web page or blog and folks can talk to you from your website or blog, even if they do not have an IM account themselves. You can see this widget on my blog as well. I also put it on our Teen Advisory Group Wiki so the kids can ask me questions if I am on line.
So, I think the concept of widgets is pretty cool but I am interested in seeing some other applications. Websites are busy enough and computers are too slow to clog them up with meaningless things.
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