A friend from those long-ago NetDynamics days has a new company that just came into public beta called iWidgets that provides a fairly simple to use, JavaScript-based tool to build a wide variety of widgets which you can then deploy on Social Networks like Facebook and Hi5, widget portals like iGoogle and embed on your blog.
As a test I made a simple widget that should show the most recent five headlines from the movie review blog and here it is:
Seems blank so far, but this is an early beta 😉
Later: Peter Yared emailed to tell me his engineers have identified the issue and a correction should push on Monday if it holds up under testing. Very good!
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