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AOL acquires widget maker Goowy

by Brad Linder Feb 4th 2008

AOL, this blog's parent company, has acquired widget and web desktop company Goowy. Goowy's original product was a webOS or webtop that you can use as an online desktop when you're away from your home computer. But while there are a ton of these services around, we're not convinced that people actually use them very much. So it's Goowy's more recent product that probably caught the eye of AOL: the YourMinis widget platform.

YourMinis widgets can be placed on almost any web page. You can add them to your iGoogle, Netvibes, or Facebook pages. Or you can add them to a desktop widget application like Vista Sidebar or Yahoo! Widget Engine. Widgets range from a YouTube video player to a Twitter application.

Goowy has been working with AOL to develop widgets for the MyAOL personalized homepage service.

Tags: acquisition, aol, goowy, webos, widgets, yourminis

Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Internet, Utilities, Web services

Yourminis for your desktop

by Chris Gilmer Mar 22nd 2007

It's a widget gadget world, so why not add a few more mini helpers on your desktop. Yourminis, who is highly known as a destination to go for widgets that can be easily added to personal websites and blogs, has entered the desktop marketplace. Are they waging some kind of war against Google Desktop sidebar and gadgets, Apple widgets, and the new Yahoo Widgets? I think they are merely providing an alternative.

Yourminis desktop is built off of the newly released Adobe Apollo platform, which could have the potential of being as popular as Flash. Whether you like it or not, Yourminis desktop widgets does require users to have the Apollo runtime installed to use the widgets. Once downloaded, the widgets work as well as they do online care of the desktop widget manager. Are they better than the offerings from Google or Yahoo? They can hold their own; if you can get past the thought of an additional runtime install. It is great however, to see another company supporting Adobe's Apollo web desktop environment, and pushing its limits.

Yourminis desktop widgets come in every shade you would expect them to, from RSS feeds, text editors, stock trackers, and weather reports. They also run on both Mac and Windows Operating systems.

Tags: adobe, apollo, desktop, gadgets, widgets, yourminis

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Text, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

Yourminis, yet another flash-based web desktop

by Ryan Carter Nov 12th 2006

There are all kinds of web-based desktops running to and fro out there, and it seems that the web 2.0 world is pushing for an app to be the next killer desktop-on-the-web. It hasn't happened yet. It may never happen, since everyone has different tastes, and like different things. Another web-based desktop has entered the arena, and made a better impression on me than many of the others I've tried. Yourminis.com is a Goowy Media product that is very fast loading, unlike many I have seen. Even though I consider myself to be an early adopter, I still don't know if I see a good enough value in the service of a web based desktop to use one every day, in a production, hardcore, pick-up-the-gun-and-lets-go-hunting capacity. Yourminis might be changing my mind a bit. The key difference for me is that yourminis bookmarklet adds an Mac expose-like functionality to both Firefox and IE. You can hit CTRL and ~ or just the icon for yourminis to view your page. Yourminis also has the usual modules (or minis I guess) you would find elsewhere, but also some that I haven't seen at other sites. You'll find your digg, del.icio.us, Flickr, gmail, .mac mail, iTunes, Amazon, and many more. Looking for as web-xpose, yourminis has it. Not quite a vote for killer app, but it could be popular.

Tags: desktop, goowy, web, yourminis

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