How many widgets would you have to sell…
I am usually pretty behind-the-times. I tend to let my friends be early adopters, letting them tell me if a new technology or product is good, bad or otherwise. That said, it should come as no surprise that I only recently upgraded to OS 10.4 (and now we are just months away from yet another iteration of the Mac OS). In addition to lots of useful features, OS 10.4 also added Dashboard - an application that allows you to use widgets, little mini web apps that run over the OS. There are a couple of useful widgets out there, and a ton of less useful ones.
All of this is old news to anyone to whom any of this matters. I had a spark of renewed interest in widgets today because I discovered a widget related to a local organization close to my heart: The Heartland Film Festival. The widget is fairly simple - it just counts down to the beginning of the festival and has an event list on the back, but hey, it’s a widget for a local organization. Unlike other widgets, it isn’t just floatingout therein the webisphere (word? not a word?). So, all my Indy peoples show some love.
