Spring Widgets - simple multi-platform widget creation
Spring Widgets offer a platform for the easy creation and distribution of Widget content. I’ve included an example widget in this entry so you can see what I mean.
Widgets are very interesting and useful ways to distribute your stuff, if you’re an advertiser or even a humble blogger, but building widgets is a hassle, because there are so many standards for them. Tools like this one make widget creation a one-stop operation, and then deal with repurposing across all the widget platforms for you. Springwidgets generates code for Google, MySpace, Blogger, it has a downloadable version, and you can take the HTML and drop it into most web pages (including this one). There are lots of other widget platforms it could support: Vista and Mac OS X both have native widget capabilities, for example. I assume they’re working on these, but others will be if they aren’t.
