Les Widgets, le futur du contenu ?
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"Widgets are small applications that can run on a desktop, Web site or mobile phone. They constantly pull in updated information from the Internet. "Applications" might be too narrow a term -- a widget can be anything distributed to a net-enabled device: a video, weather icon, sports score badge, etc. People use widgets to get easy access to info, spice up their weblog, or combine information from different sources on a site. To follow current thinking on widgets, see Snipperoo's blog. Pope believes that widgets will play a huge role in the future of content -- or in his own words, "All content needs to be loosed in the smallest particles possible (widgetized). Then it will reform itself into valid and relevant units, driven by the consumers of that content...