Widgets Go Commercial

There are widgets for everything now from The Zodiac with your daily horoscope to the Symphonic with iTunes. When we found out that corporations are beginning to use them as a marketing tool, we weren’t surprised.

Yahoo’s Widgets 4 is a collection of more than 4,300 and includes some with company branding. “The user’s desktop is extremely valuable, it’s prime real estate,” said Paul Brody, Yahoo VP of desktop products.

We would personally prefer to clutter our own with a widget coffee alarm that lets us know its break time. Come to think of it, we think we hear it now.

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