Google Gadgets can now be added to any webpage

by Chris Gilmer Oct 3rd 2006

Google announced today that their specially designed gadgets can be added to any webpage. Google Gadgets were locked into Google Personalized Home and Google Desktop, but now with the breakout of the gadgets, websites are sure to get some nice dynamic and rich content additions.

Currently developed Google Gadgets include Google maps, date & time, jokes, games, news reports, flight status, webcams, and sports scores. Gadgets can also be developed from scratch with the Google Gadget API. I look forward to seeing some intuitive additions of Google Gadgets onto websites.

Tags: api, desktop, gadget, gadget api, GadgetApi, google, google desktop, GoogleDesktop, homepage, webpages

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike said 1:16AM on 10-04-2006

Now this is what I've been waiting for. Thanks, Google!

Robert said 5:56AM on 10-04-2006

Yeah, I can't await to see these gadgets running on a myspace user site! This would definetely rock! ;)

Robert

Danny said 6:43AM on 10-04-2006

How about we rename this blog to googlesquad!

S. Kreiht said 6:47AM on 10-04-2006

next step of Google: Google Operating System :).

Mini said 7:18AM on 10-04-2006

Not yet, but very soon Google OS will come :)

Knight17 said 1:18PM on 10-04-2006

We can see more ugly webpages...from now onwards.

midwestmusic said 1:20PM on 10-04-2006

I could definitely use some Google Maps. Mapquest sometimes gets me lost. I can't depend on it.

Vegeto said 6:43PM on 11-29-2006

Here's the atom for my personal favorite gadgets!
http://www.geocities.com/mustaine_dan/ddice.xml

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