I'm going to get a little technical on you here, so pay attention. A widget or GUI widget (should we go there ... let's "graphical user interface") is a condensed version of an application that lives on your desktop. The application it represents can be anything from a photo viewer to an RSS feed reader to a wireless network finder and even a home search tool. Coldwell Banker created a widget version of the Home Retriever last year - a small part of what helped them win the Inman News Innovator of the Year for 2007. If you have Vista, you have widgets. You may not know what they are - but they are the tiny apps running on your desktop or in the your tidy little Microsoft sidebar.
For more on widgets, check out the Yahoo! widget library at widgets.yahoo.com or create your own widgets with Widgetbox, Wigitize or use Yahoo's Konfabulator. There are millions of widgets for just about everything you can think of ... a few of my personal favs include the picture frame widgets - scroll through your own pics or pics of places you wish you were, the free wireless network finders ... very good when you are down the shore for the weekend, the weather widgets - I like to know what's happening outside, and of course the many versions of the itunes remotes so I can listen to my tunes while typing away.
You can also turn your blog in a widget or "blidget". One of my favorite authors, Tim Sanders (wrote The Likeability Factor and Love is the Killer App) has his blog in widget form so I always have him right on my desktop. Ahhh Tim, you are so wise.
Have a great Wednesday everyone!!!
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