Comments on: What is a widget?

By: pete

pete — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:26:33 +0000

Rachel! Just popped by and see that you are also enjoying the fabness that is Regina Spektors new album! Nice choice!

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:17:48 +0000

Widgets and Web 2.0…

Widgets have become a hot topic in the web community lately as a large number of sites are allowing users to personalize their experience. The term widget can be used interchangeably with gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:30:16 +0000

Awesome! Thanks so much

By: Adrian Krzyzewski

Adrian Krzyzewski — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:23:57 +0000

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for your comments about the TVNZ Widget. Now that I take a look at the instructions again I can see where you’re coming from – they are too technical. We will have a look at it today and see what we can come up with.

Cheers

By: tim bulkeley

tim bulkeley — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:14:38 +0000

To an unMac not terribly techie user (i.e. me;-) widget is cutesey, it sounds like the terms marketers come up with so as to make technology more “cuddly”. I MUCH prefer your version which tells me what the “thing” will do for me. I would not mind a little more info in small print about how it will or won’t try to take over my machine, because I’ve had bad experiences in the past with cute downloads!

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:31:36 +0000

I agree … ‘widget’ was originally a term used in business to refer to a generic product. They might as well call it a ‘thing’.

Maybe a ‘desktop plug-in’ would be slightly more understandable. Not to say ‘plug-in’ is user friendly but it has a longer history in the browser.

Or just ‘desktop application’ … sometimes being clever hurts more than it helps.

By: Chin

Chin — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:05:43 +0000

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