links for 2008-02-27

"People love these phrases - 'grab my widget', 'he grabbed my widget', 'they grabbed the widget'….or any derivation thereof. This is why I am thinking we need to just take the term 'placements' and call them 'Grabs'".

"There's only so much time for us to join another social network, add new widgets, and try out new services. This fight is not only for a consumer's web time but their total leisure time - time to spend with family, or on sports & entertainment".

"My view of widgets today is that they are tightly coupled with the long tail – adoption seems exciting (and pageview (widgetview?) ramps seem huge) because of the long tail effect (vs. moving up the curve to mainstream media.)".

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"The Netvibes Developers blog announced you will be able to create your own widgets from any page you want thanks to an Automatic Parser that will be able to convert any page into a UWA widget". If you don't support your own widgets, someone else will.

Badge for your site which indicates your Google Talk status. Very, very neat.