Glossary Series Day 11: Widget

September 30, 9:45 AMSF Boomers ExaminerSuzanna Stinnett

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This post is part of the Glossary Series, a 100-day conversation designed to develop and clarify the language we use to describe online communication. As Year 2008 comes to a close, the emerging Glossary of Online Communication will be published along with a selection of the comments from my readership. I hope to see your comments among them.

Day 11: Widget

Widget: -n. A portable snippet of HTML code which can be plucked from one place on the web and easily embedded in another website. A widget adds content that is not static (instead it is portable, easily transported). To the user, a widget may provide a mode of organizing website material, a way of changing appearance, or a way to include a piece of functionality on a website. Advertising banners were early forms of widgets. Very common in blogs, widgets are often used to facilitate syndication of material.

What widgets have you made use of? Did you realize you were using a widget?

Suzanna

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