• Registered: 2007-11-09
  • Posts: 340

Topic: iGoogle-tizer / iGoogle Gadget wrapper

One could compare iGoogle to Chumby purely as a medium of information display/exchange, and they can compare well.

   One Google Tab => One Chumby Channel
   One Google gadget/RSS Feed => One Chumby Widget

If someone wanted to duplicate their iGoogle experience on their Chumby, they would need at least  a Google Gadget wrapper widget, something that can display an arbitrary gadget as a widget. 

The next step would be to have tools that migrate one or more items from an individual's iGoogle page to the Chumby, or even synch them up.

Obviously this isn't a small project; it would take a roomful of interns at a Summer of Code with a couple of cases of Bawls to get done.

  • From: San Francisco, CA
  • Registered: 2007-11-01
  • Posts: 98

Re: iGoogle-tizer / iGoogle Gadget wrapper

There have been other services that have adapted containers that can consume all sorts of open widgets/gadgets out there.

Web sites such as http://www.widgetbox.com/ or http://snipperoo.com ; applications such as Yahoo! widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com/), Apple's Dashboard, Windows Vista, and Google Gadgets for Google Desktop, etc. These all have some type of containers that facilitate sharing the widgets between themselves now.

The rendering of the widgets in the previous examples are on dependant a similar rendering platform such as WebKit on the desktop, or an application that hooks into a web browser renderer, or just a web browser to run the dhtml, xml, css when browsing a web site (iGoogle).


An interesting widget sites that might work with Chumby is:

http://www.yourminis.com/

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