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Google Gadgets Come to You
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo is reporting the release of "Google Gadgets", 1,220 dynamic applications for use on your web pages, without needing to connect to Google. 'Google Gadgets range from a miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar to independent applications ranging from financial information to sports to communication tools and jokes, horoscopes or geometric puzzle game Tetris.'"
Apparently, Google news didn't think this was news worthy. http://news.google.com/
When it comes to pastry theft, I take the cake.
"I love the irony of Yahoo reporting this."
I dunno how ironic that is. Yahoo's positioning themselves as a news source. They wouldn't be so newsworthy if they conveniently left out news from competitors. Heck, even MSNBC's website posts news about Microsoft exploits.
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Actually, Reuters is reporting it. Yahoo! is simply syndicating it.
Could be... but doesn't have to be.
The cool part of this is that they are providing the code so that you can use any of these on your own website -- not just "their space". Of course, by showing you the code it also makes it easy for you to modify to suit your needs.
As a developer I can appreciate having access to this.
Life is short: void the warranty.
As a web site owner who is not a developer, I second that.
... :)
Of course, widgets by themselves aren't going to make compelling content for my web site, but maybe I'll see something that brings in RSS feeds that I can manage to modify to bring in the right combination of content from elsewhere to stimulate a decent blog.
And then I'll call a developer to fix whatever it is I've broken
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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
True, but the same is true when you purchase software (including the OEM software that came with the box itself), and also when you insert certain treacherous DRM-enabled audio discs into an insufficiently protected Windows box (e.g. Sony rootkit fiasco). So it's not really a question of how you obtain the code, but whether you trust the party providing it. In Google's case, at least they have an official stance of "don't be evil", which (as we've seen) is a lot better than some other sources. That, and they seem relatively competent in the overall scheme of things.
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