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Google Adds Widgets to Homepage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-the-clever-stuff dept.

Panaphonix writes "Google announced that their personalized homepage now has an API for developers to add their own modules. Samples are available in this directory."

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  1. Re:I read this on Digg.com 2 days ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yet you continue to come here, maybe it's time to get a life?

  2. I now have a place... by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for that /. dupe eliminator module I've been working on.

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  3. This. Is. Evil. by dada21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google's use of the word "widget" is Evil. There are some words that shouldn't be redefined, especially by a megacorp.

    I've used widget for years - maybe 15. When making a generic description of a generic item, widget is the placeholder word to use.

    Now what do we do? Can they trademark a commonly used nothing-word? Will we see Google Ptooie and Google Grrr next?

  4. Re:I read this on Digg.com 2 days ago by resprung · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least the Slashdot editors post consistently wrong grammar...

    it's != its
    they're != theyre

    I guess I've read this site for 6 years now, no change... :-)

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  5. Re:Teaching basic programming by MullerMn · · Score: 4, Funny

    How beautifully appropriate that your rant about old school programming is marked up in LaTeX rant tags.

  6. Wic Wac Woe by panthro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try this:

    http://www.mavrinac.com/projects/wicwacwoe/google. xml

    Quite possibly the most useless Google Homepage module available.

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  7. Re:Teaching basic programming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see the +2 Python modifier is in effect.

  8. Re:Teaching basic programming by La+Fortezza · · Score: 4, Funny
    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
    that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
    are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

    --Edsger Dijkstra's Evaluations of Programming Languages (c. 1982)