Fluffy pink Widgets

I’m thinking widgets may be the future of the web. They make every social network page or blog, or start page a personal media network.

It seems Will Price of we’re-not-arms-dealers-even-though-we-sound-like-we-might-be, Hummer Winblad venture capitalists also thinks so, so much so he’s biting the hand that feeds him and leaving the boardrooms full of free pens for the backrooms full of bearded start-up geeks drinking Kool-Aid and joining Hummer Winblad backed Widgetbox.

His logic goes thus:

“The best markets and the best companies ride the tide of history. Widgets are such a market.

The Web’s tide is open, distributed, standard, user-defined, and, in many ways, the most powerful force of the modern era. Widgets are not a fad, or web 2.0-hype, but fundamentally they are the unit by which users are assembling and defining their web experience.”

I kinda agree and to show my agreement in a widgety way, I used Slide, King O’The Facebook Apps Crapola to turn Bon Bon’s Radiohead video into something that wouldn’t be out of place in my daughter’s bedroom alongside her picture of Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

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