Google has adopted OAuth, an open Web authentication standard for controlling privacy, for its widget platform, Google Gadgets.
If a user has personal information stored on one Web site, OAuth provides a mechanism for him or her to authorize that Web site to share the data with another Web site or widget.
In the ever increasing socialness of the web, everything from news to photos to videos are being shared. Outside of ShareThis, I’m not to familiar with other sites or services that are exclusively centered around sharing items across the web. During the past week, I was tipped off to a new service that has launched called Tell A Friend.
Probably acting as the Ueber online widget collection of all widgets (or a ironic view of the iGoogle portal concept), Sprint introduces a huge widget mosaic dashboard [sprint.com] that attempts to document the "now". The statistical data shown through slick designed bar charts, counters and various iconography ranges from the "World Energy Used Now" over a "Live White House Cam" to amount of "People Stuck in Elevators".
In one fell swoop, David Yovanno has become the king of Internet widgets. Formerly chief operating officer of ValueClick, he will become the chief executive of the top widget company, Gigya, effective Tuesday.
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Yahoo has come up with a way to mix social networking with charities andnon-profits. Called Yahoo!For Good, it has partnered with 'charity aggregator' Networkfor Good and launched a personalized Charity Badge - for people to put ontheir websites, social networks or email. To promote the initiative, Yahoo! willmatch the amount raised by the user who generates the largest number ofindividual donations from their personal social network (up to $50,000).
The Charity Badge works by allowing website owners or social network users tocreate and publish a personalized badge (essentially a widget). You can even putit on your email signature. Withthe badge you can set up a link to your favorite charity, so that family, friendsand others in your social network can donate as well. Or you can simply copy thecode for an existing badge, that someone else set up for a charity. Check out the top10 badges to get an idea of how this works.
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clipper's remarks: Would be great if it would work with mySpace
