Get {insert widget title} on your website

Posted on 22. Nov, 2008 by Dean Whitney in Advertising, Web 2.0 Technology   and has   0 Comments

I’ve discussed widget often with clients and speaking at events. Eventually everything will be a widget. Just like you have appliances in your house. You don’t go somwhere to ask them to toast your bread – you have a toaster. Today you wouldn’t build a mapping system, you’d use one that is available.

The key to creating an effective widget is making sure it is 1. useful and 2. frictionless.

Yahoo! Buzz has a good example. I may want to add Buzz content to my sidebar here on the blog. This blog is new but I hope it will occupy some lively chatter soon so the current Yahoo! Buzz top articles could be of use. We have satisfied the first objective. (more…)