widgets

It's the first major label deal for the social music industry's latest enfant terrible, which has been hammered by lawsuits and seen its widgets banned from MySpace.

Oosah's new widget platform lets you create your own widgets out of all the content it can access on your favorite social networks.

Miss Muxtape? Forget about it with GrooveShark's new widget service which blends songs from your hard drive with online streaming music.

Opera Software's new betas for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Symbian UIQ add brand-new support for widgets and a few extra nuggets for developers.

New "canvas view" for widgets lets them take over the portal page.

Widgetbox launches a network for bloggers, categorizing widgets into 29 verticals, such as Autos, Music, Sports and Politics.

A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language.

If Yahoo’s battle with Google has taught us anything it’s that the company isn’t run by engineers.

Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it’ll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference.

Opera's latest release is an SDK that makes widgets specs widely available to third-party developers. The development kit supports major languages for creating advanced Web applications, and completes the package with an emulator and a debugging tool.

Adobe may invite users to mash up Photoshop and other applications in the next Creative Suite to make Flash widgets.