Irish Widget Developers….

9th of February 2007 by admin

Any Irish widget developers around ? [2007 is the year of the widget :-) ]

Plenty of platforms for widgets….

Vista, Yahoo,
Google, Myspace/Springwidget
Mac

Please leave comments on any Irish developed widgets/Irish widget developers….

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4 Responses to “Irish Widget Developers….”

Derek Organ

February 9th, 2007 at 10:44 am

We aren’t widget developers but i’d be interested in talking to some if there are any?

Paul M. Watson

February 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am

Bah! 2007 is the year of RSS… no wait… 2007 is the year of vertical search… no wait, the year of browser VOIP?

2007 is basically the year of [insert your technology here].

As for widgets, we are working on some here at the TSSG.

I think they have benefit but to be honest 2007 is going to be the year that the success of widgets will reveal the flaws of widgets (e.g. the slow-down the MyBlogLog widget experienced.)

Not everything has to be a widget, seriously guys.

Alan O'Rourke

February 11th, 2007 at 11:06 am

We designed one for a development company but are under NDA until it is released.
We will also be developing style guides for another UK company soon who will be launching a range of widgets under the one brand.
Personally i have not seen the point of most widgets. It seems to be going against everyone else’s move to web based desktops.

Paul Browne - Technology in Plain English

February 12th, 2007 at 10:05 am

We’ve been playing with building a few widgets as part of 2 (non-disclosed) business ideas we’re looking at.

I’m yet to be convinced of the business case for Widgets; there are multiple (incompatible) platforms to develop for, and people aren’t yet used to paying for them. The exception to this may be for (viral) marketing purposes.

On the technical side, I’ve found that pretty much any competent programmer can put one together. Your Language (Java/Javascript/.Net) is dictated by the widget platform. While you have an API to learn (slight learning curve) , this is an advantage after the first day or two as you tend to be operating in a restricted environment (= less of other stuff to know / learn).

Paul , Firstpartners.net