The Ubiquitous Widgets

Matt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:47:25 +0000

Widgets are everywhere these days. What started out from RSS feeds and start pages to later become part of the mainstream in social networking, blogs, & portals, and has recently been thriving in mobile phone applications.

Recent News Updates:

Jun 9, Nokia translates Web apps to mobile widgets
Jun 8, 10 Billion Widgets Served… And Counting
Jun 8, I’ve Seen the Future, and it’s Full of Widgets
Jun 7, Yahoo! Launches TV Widgets for YouTube, Showtime, eBay
Jun 5, Mint Integrates with MyYahoo Start Pages
Jun 5, Novarra Widgets Nominated in Mobile Innovation Tournament

Google Trends:

Taking a further look at the regional breakout of the top ten countries shows:

Countries included were:

Asia: Indonesia #1, Singapore #2, Taiwan #3
Europe: Switzerland #5, France #7, Sweden #10
ROW: Australia #4, India #8
North America: US #6, Canada #9

It’s interesting that when you combine Asia and ROW, you get 59% of total weighted search. I would have thought that US would have been a little higher with the popularity of Facebook and other SaaS applications. Perhaps an indicator of things to come.

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The Ubiquitous Widgets