Find Our Latest Video Reviews on YouTube!
If you want to stay on top of all of our video reviews of the latest tech, be sure to check out and subscribe to the Gear Live YouTube channel, hosted by Andru Edwards! It’s free!
Thursday March 29, 2007 2:48 pm
Widgets Go Commercial
There are widgets for everything now from The Zodiac with your daily horoscope to the Symphonic with iTunes. When we found out that corporations are beginning to use them as a marketing tool, we weren’t surprised.
Yahoo’s Widgets 4 is a collection of more than 4,300 and includes some with company branding. “The user’s desktop is extremely valuable, it’s prime real estate,” said Paul Brody, Yahoo VP of desktop products.
We would personally prefer to clutter our own with a widget coffee alarm that lets us know its break time. Come to think of it, we think we hear it now.
Read More 
| Reuters
Latest Gear Live Videos
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
© Gear Live Inc. {year} – User-posted content, unless source is quoted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License. Gear Live graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, videos, articles, blogs, forums, scripts and other service names are the trademarks of Gear Live Inc.