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Google Dashboard Widgets

Google has some Mac OS Dashboard widgets they put up this week.

Yahoo Updates Its Widgets

The mini-applications provided by Yahoo after its purchases of Pixoria/Konfabulator have received some new entries and a tweaked engine to run them.

Crisis On Infinite Gadgets

The previously unknown market space for gadgets now has a crowd containing Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Dropship Your Way To Ebay Success

Dropshipping is a topic that I first addressed in my column way back in April, 2003, which is decades ago in Internet years.

Yahoo Bringing Tiger Widgets To Web

Sunnyvale-based Yahoo has purchased Konfabulator, which introduced the "widget" concept on the Mac in 2002.

Konfabulator 2 rocks

This says it all about the folks behind the latest version of Konfabulator, an application that lets you run a wide range of programs called widgets on your desktop.

Mac OS X Tiger: A Blogging Perspective

Last night I was in town and treated myself to the new OSX - Tiger. This afternoon I've installed it and have been playing around with it - asking myself how it will improve my blogging.

Graphical, SEO Friendly Buttons

One of the most mundane tasks a web programmer or designer faces is the creation of (many) buttons. It is a tedious task.

Optimizing Dynamic Pages - Part II

The Widget Queen Revisited You have the world's finest collection of widgets. You created the world's best widget website. You have no traffic. You checked in the search engines and find that your site does not appear at all, even though all your competitors' sites do. Perhaps the search engine robots cannot get to your pages to index them. Search Engine Robots Search engine robots are simple creatures. They can "read" text to add to their databases, and they can follow "normal" links--those links that are coded to look like <a href="bluewidgets.html">blue widgets </a> or the slight variation <a href="bluewidgets.html ><img src="bluewidget.gif" ></a>