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 -

With the launch of Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform, Windows Live Spaces (formally MSN Spaces), there has been an increase in interest around gadgets - i.e. mini web apps.

Widgets (aka gadgets, modules) are mini web apps that you can plug in to a webpage or site such as MySpace, or a personalized start page like Netvibes or live.com.

Wufoo is a new web app that enables users to create their own web forms. I have to disclaim that Kevin Hale, the guy who re-designed my blog, is one

Earlier this week I noted that widget services are really ramping up now. Indeed over the past couple of days I've noticed lots of action in the burgeoning widgets industry,

Paul Kedrosky points to a new service called PostApp, which is a new widgets syndication service currently in private beta. While the sign-up page doesn't go into detail about what