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Widgets. Definitions. A widget is a live update on a website, webpage, or desktop. Widgets contain personalized neatly organized content or applications selected by its user ( lazworld ). A third party item that can be embedded in a web page (tvb.org). Definitions.
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Definitions • A widget is a live update on a website, webpage, or desktop. Widgets contain personalized neatly organized content or applications selected by its user (lazworld). • A third party item that can be embedded in a web page (tvb.org).
Definitions • These mini-applications—also called “gadgets”—are simple bits of code, easily dragged onto a desktop or pasted into a personal page, where they are constantly updated with whatever information you want. -Newsweek • Widgets for searching, organizing, collaborating
Resources • Assorted Widgets By Joyce Valenza • Widgets to the Rescue By EllyssaKroski -- School Library Journal, 2/1/2008 • How to Embed Almost Anything in Your Website By AmitAgarwal