Steve O'Hear (who edits our digital lifestyle blog last100) has an interesting post on his ZDNet blog that questions whether Google's OpenSocial initiative is at all about data portability, or Continue reading »

Yahoo! tonight announced the release of the latest version of the Yahoo! Widgets platform, version 4.5. For developers, the platform includes a range of new features, including the ability to Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Ticketmaster_Unleashes_the_Widget_for_Its_Nefarious_Agenda'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Ticketmaster, the formerly IAC-owned events behemoth, went from large to small today, launching an affiliate widget program. Blogger Rex Dixon

In a cheeky move, Netvibes has released a Facebook widget. Both Netvibes and Facebook are leading Web platforms for widgets (i.e. mini web apps that can be plugged into web Continue reading »

When you think of widgets you typically think of web 2.0 companies. Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us were among the first services with widgets and many more followed. Indeed, if you're a Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/software/World_Wide_Web_of_Widgets'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore Continue reading »

RateItAll, a social network based around online reviews and opinions, has released a new distributed rating widget. It enables users to not only view (read) a widget, but to interact Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus 2006 was a year of many interesting Web happenings and 2007 is looking like another bumper year. In all the excitement, Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. We have written extensively about widgets here at Read/WriteWeb because widgets offer a new, byte-size way to expose and consume Continue reading »

Engadget is providing superb coverage of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference, currently in progress in San Francisco. I'll zero in on the bit that interested me the most -