Topic: Software widget

Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration

Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google’s search results. A new dashboard that looks much more like the current Google (and Google+) aesthetic, and also offers some new functionality, will be available “over the […]

Google Enables Mobile AdWords Access On Smartphones

Google has now enabled access to the AdWords dashboard and other features for smartphone users. It’s configurable and provides on-the-go access to account data and stats. The new mobile interface is currently available for iPhone, Android and Palm/WebOS users. You can access AdWords for Mobile by visiting https://adwords.google.com/dashboard/Dashboard on your mobile browser. There’s more discussion, […]

Google Rolls Out Social Gadgets Quickly

Last week we first wrote about social gadgets rolling out in Australia. Marissa Mayer, whom I spoke with at the time, said the timing of a broader rollout was uncertain. Well it’s here today: Your friends are able to see what you share or do in your social gadgets either by having the same gadgets […]

AOL Debuts Bebo “Social Inbox”

AOL is repositioning or perhaps enhancing Bebo as a kind of dashboard for the internet using the concept of a “social inbox.” The Wall Street Journal has coverage of what’s at stake for AOL and the challenges facing social media ad revenues. The social inbox idea is about aggregation of content and services (e.g., email) […]

Yahoo Makes Bid To Become A Mobile Development Platform

Last night at CES, Yahoo made several related mobile announcements tied to its application Go and a new bid to become a mobile platform for third party publishers and developers. There are essentially three pieces to what Yahoo announced: Yahoo Go 3.0 (not yet live), an open mobile widget development platform for third parties, and […]

Google Gadgets Meets Apple’s Dashboard Widgets

Google Gadgets can now run on Apple’s Dashboard as a native Dashboard Widget. Now you can have the same Google Gadget on your iGoogle page and Google Desktop Sidebar as well as in your Apple Dashboard. From a developer’s standpoint, now if you make a Google Gadget, that gadget can work easily on a Mac, […]

My Yahoo Update Coming In “Few Weeks”

PC World reports that My Yahoo will be launching an updated version within a few weeks. The reports do not specify exactly what we will see from the upgrade, but I am suspecting we may just see an enhanced RSS reader built into the portal.

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Widgipedia: A Widgets Supersite

Fond of Yahoo Widgets or Google Gadgets? A new site called Widgipedia.com lets you search and browse for web and desktop-based mini-applications across a number of different platforms. Widgets can be found in the Widgipedia gallery by browsing, identifying items in the “tag cloud,