iGoogle Releases Rugby World Cup Widgets
The Rugby World Cup has just started and many people all over the world are glued to their TV sets - especially in my home country New Zealand, where rugby is a national religion. iGoogle has come to the party, by offering a group of Rugby World Cup widgets (Google calls them "gadgets") to help you follow the action. For tech newbies, iGoogle is a personalized start page where you can install widgets (a.k.a. mini web applications) to access interactive Web content (full review here).
The Official Google Australia Blog has details of the rugby widgets: featuring live scores, team information, rugby news, stadium locations, local information, rugby fan videos, results and rankings. You can access all of that by clicking on the link to add the ‚ÄúRugby 2007‚Ä? tab to your personalised homepage.
These widgets will come in very handy, as we watch the All Blacks win the World Cup in just over a month's time! ;-)
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You guys have still got plenty of time to choke yet - it was the same story four years ago and look what happened. Saying that, I don't think England have got a chance this time around :)
I'll be using the widget to chart our demise over the next few weeks.
Wales 4 teh win! Just kidding, I'm under no such delusions - but you can always dream... These are great.
Sorry, Richard, spear tackles are banned.
Ireland will win, 30-10, over the Blacks.
Look out for Leamey!
NZ always good on paper, but you beat us South Africans for the choker tag in Rugby time and time again! Cricket... that's another sorry story.
sport aside, a lot of disproportionate good Web stuff coming out of NZ; always nice to see Southern Hemisphere doing well in putting the first W in WWW
There is a lot of great Web stuff coming from NZ currently, I agree!
As for the All Blacks, they are a much much better team this year than 4 or 8 years ago. They'll do the business this year.
Also make sure you take a look at the all blacks Vista gadget and Silverlight mini application launching on http://allblacks.com today or tomorrow!
http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2007/09/10/bring-it-on.aspx
The AB gadget is now live - http://www.allblacks.com/gadget/default.htm