September 11, 2008 4:20 PM -
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Yahoo Shows Off More Of Its Widget Platform (YHOO) —
Yahoo (YHOO) has been slowly rolling out various parts of its "Open Strategy" project - letting other companies putting stuff on Yahoo sites - since April. But the company saved some new stuff for a show-and-tell it held today at its Sunnyvale headquarters. One example: A Netflix (NFLX) widget that would sit on Yahoo's homepage, on Yahoo Mail, and in Yahoo search results. On the home page, for instance, a Netflix subscriber could check their queue, see recommendations, and add movies, without going to Netflix's site. Similarly, in search results, you could add a movie directly to your Netflix queue...
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Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is built into Gmail by default—like web or mail search and RSS web clips—but Rubel goes into detail on using Google Talk to update IM-friendly social services, Labs tools like Quick Links and the new gadgets to access his calendar, documents, and vital services, and start his writing in an auto-saving Gmail box, to be mailed to other writing apps. It's a neat...
Since Wave 3 first surfaced, we’ve been talking about the Windows Live Essentials clients suite, and we’ve been discussing the online portion of the Windows Live services, but there’s actually a third part to the Windows Live Wave 3 release – Windows Live for mobile. We’ve produced the matrix below that summarises what mobile services will be offered as part of the Wave 3 release. Each mobile service is marked against the three different channels of how Windows Live for mobile will be available for the mobile users – through Client-based (for Windows Mobile and other supported mobile devices), Web-based...
