Archive for the ‘widgets’ Category

Widget Wars: OpenSocial vs. OpenAjax vs. W3C Widgets


The popularity of widgets these days has brought to attention the need for interoperability, i.e. for widgets developed for one site or platform to be able to run in other sites and widgets developed by different people to be able to work with each other. So much so that I know of at least 3 [...]

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Extending Reuse to the Last Mile


While services make it easier to share your data and functionality, some developer still has to write the code to consume your service and present the results to the end user. In many cases, that code to consume and present a visualization of the service can be reused by other applications. This has already exploded [...]

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