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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.

Google's just announced a potentially significant update to its Google Base product, by releasing a data API for it. This essentially means Google is opening up Google Base, their database

This post was written by Ajit Jaokar, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. In my last post, I spoke of the differences between

Google today announced embeddable previews for all books included in Google's Book Search. Developers can now make use of a set of APIs to embed these previews into any site.

Techcrunch has sniffed out details on Google's new social network project, named OpenSocial (set to go live Thur US). OpenSocial is not a social network itself, rather it is a

Today at the Defrag Conference, Kevin Marks from Google gave a presentation on OpenSocial. Before working at Google, Kevin was Principal Engineer at Technorati. He's also well known as one

The RSS Aggregation niche has been very busy this week. Numerous changes and enhancements were recently made to RSS aggregator RSSmeme. However, another service that was once exclusively for Google

Social networking site MySpace is releasing a set of APIs later today that will allow developers to implement protocols for exchanging and synchronizing user profiles between their own applications and

In May 2005 the BBC launched a new developer network site initially called BBC Backstage, since re-named backstage.bbc.co.uk. In doing so they put the call out for people to remix

At tomorrow's Google I/O conference, the App Engine team will be making a number of announcements. In advance of the conference, we interviewed Paul McDonald and Pete Koomen, two App