Stuffleufagus

I received an email late last week that I didn’t get around to until today.  It read, in part:

We are building a “Widget-World” - a place on the web for all of your widgets.  It’s not really a personal home page as much as it is a personal experience!

I replied this morning asking some clarifying questions - one I share here:

“Are your widgets Flash-based, Javascript, or what?  How portable are they?”

The answer - “They aren’t portable beyond our site - they are meant to drive traffic to our site, not away from it”

Sorry.  That’s not a Widget - that’s a web-site feature.  Widgets are mobile creatures - nomads - they are meant to be free to explore, to expand and grow - to move and to morph.

If you have a thing that isn’t portable - don’t call it a Widget.  Make it a bullet point on your slide deck if you must.  But don’t call it a Widget. 

written by rob

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