Ricardo Sato

Building

http://www.slideshare.net/cyrildoussin/custom-yui-widgets

http://www.slideshare.net/skeevis/facebook-for-widget-developers

http://www.slideshare.net/mcaceres/widgets-125319

Theory

http://www.slideshare.net/MicrolearningOrg/mobile-web-20-mobile-widgets-microlearning-and-intertwingularity

http://www.slideshare.net/mcaceres/w3c-xbl-20-and-widgets-10-155923

http://www.slideshare.net/silvertje/the-widgetized-self-in-the-blogosphere/

http://www.slideshare.net/rohitbhargava/the-25-basic-styles-of-blogging-and-when-to-use-each-one/

http://www.slideshare.net/yizmo/10-ways-to-a-killer-blog/

http://www.slideshare.net/mathowie/making-money-blogging/

According to Wikipedia:

“A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.”

Widgets can be powerfull branding tools. Like Linkin Park, shows here:

Different kinds off functionalities and customizations are been created, like in Apple Dashboard Leopard:

Widgets are going mobile. S60 Web-run is one of this technologies. Here is a presentation showing more details.

Building an widget in flash.

And some theory foundations: http://www.slideshare.net/silvertje/the-widgetized-self-in-the-blogosphere/

• Web widget in Wikipedia
• Widget engine in Wikipedia
• Widget 1.0 in W3C
• Widget Box
• Yahoo! Widgets
• Opera Widgets
• Konfabulator
• Apple Dashboard Widgets
• Widgets Lab
• Netvibes Ecosystem
• Yourminis