Widgets and Gadgets and Modules! Oh my!
Personal homepage service Netvibes has released Ecosystem, a directory of cross-platform widgets for iGoogle, Apple’s Dashboard, Windows Vista, and Opera. CNet has the story: Netvibes widgets now available on Google, Vista, Mac
Okay, no one is using “doo-dads” to refer to these JavaScript-DOM-CSS and Flash-based thingamabobs for your web page or desktop, but I needed a third term 
.At least one company uses the term ‘modules’ It’s an all-widgets and gadgets round up.
- The Ever-Changing Widget Landscape
- A surprisingly fair (considering it’s Yahoo! writing about itself and its competitors) piece about the world of widgets. (Added January 30, 2007)
- The Year of the Widget?
- With the release of Vista, will 2007 be the Year of the Widget? (Added February 8, 2007)
- Can Widgets Fix the Mobile Web?
- Forget the desktop. Widgets may be the way to get bite-sized, contextual information to mobile phones.
- Some Bling for Your Blog
- Widgets — web-based ones, at least — go mainstream. (Added January 18, 2007)
- Widgipedia
- Web widgets, desktop widgets, and developer resources for creating widgets. (Added January 17, 2007)
- Widgets 1.0
- A working draft from the World Wide Web Consortium about developing widgets. (Added November 13, 2006)
- LabPixies
- Web based widgets / gadgets. LabPixies is a development firm that will develop customized widgets for your company. They also build their own. (Added November 13, 2006)
- Firefoxit
- A widget engine for Firefox (which I’m not crazy about because it doesn’t integrate well with your operating system interface). (Added November 7, 2006)
- Live Spaces: The challenges facing gadget developers
- Things to consider when developing Microsoft Live Spaces gadgets. (Added November 6, 2006)
- Widsets
- Your web site in a mobile widget (Added November 6, 2006).
- Microsoft Gadgets
- Use JavaScript/JScript, CSS, XML and DOM-scripting to create widgets / gadgets for Windows Live pages and the forthcoming Vista desktop. By the way, the Microsoft SDK isn’t really an SDK. All you need is a web server and a good text editor. (Added November 6, 2006)
- SpringWidgets
- An engine that enables Flash-based widgets on the desktop (and the web). From Fox Interactive. The SDK is Windows-only, which is kind of dumb considering many, if not most Flash designers / developers are Mac users. (Added November 6, 2006)
- Attributes, Not Elements
- Look for the next version of the Yahoo! Widget XML to use attributes over elements.
- DashboardWidgets.com
- A community for designers, developers and users of Mac OS X widgets.
- Developers at Widgetbox
- Make hosted widgets that bloggers can include on their pages.
- Yahoo! Widgets Workshop
- Documentation and directions for creating Yahoo! Widgets
- Opera Widgets
- Tips, tutorials, style guides, and JavaScript libraries for developing Opera browser widgets.
- Developing Dashboard Widgets
- Apple’s own documentation.
- Google Gadgets
- ‘A widget by any other name…’ Create goodies that run on several Google products, or darn near any web page.