Written on October 5th, 2006 at 04:10 am by Darren Rowse
Google Gadgets Available for Webpages
Google today announced Google Gadgets are now available for webpage owners.
Previously they were only available for Google Desktop or Homepage but now publishers can add them. In a sense they are widgets which will sit in your side bar and they range from Google Maps, to the Current Moon Phase, to games, translation and time and date.
I’m not about to rush out and add any of them to my blogs but there might be some worth using depening upon the nature of your blog.
found via Duncan
8 Responses to “Google Gadgets Available for Webpages” - Add Yours
Grayson De Ritis
October 5th, 2006 8:39 am
I find them to be a bit on the cheesy/tacky side, but indeed some may be useful.
Martin
October 5th, 2006 9:51 am
Ah … more choices to clutter up a sidebar. :)
I like a blog with a “less is more” sidebar.
Kevin
October 5th, 2006 10:20 am
The google map one had potential, however it doesn’t want to zoom in to street level in Australia. Strange…
Chase
October 5th, 2006 6:15 pm
These widgets seem to be more of a distraction to the blog than the wonderful tool they might have been. What would be a good widget for a blog?
IanS
October 7th, 2006 5:23 am
I really don’t see the point of this at all.
Is anyone really likely to think “I fancy a quick game of PacMan – I know I’ll head to that website about blogging”?
omeg12121293
October 9th, 2006 5:34 am
this wont increase traffic right
MiniApps
October 6th, 2007 8:30 pm
We belive in google gadgets since we belive Google is the most likely winner of the widget/gadget – war.
We belive gadgets so much infact that we’ve created a gadgets directory called Google Mini Apps. At the time of writing this comment the site is still young(about 20 days), but people are already submitting their gadgets like crazy.
Kate
March 17th, 2009 6:23 pm
What a great post.I like gadgets so much, I’m going to add to this blog to my favorites.No doubt…
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