Gadgets give you greater control over how your program looks and operates, but widgets make your apps more accessible. The word gadget is also used to describe any small, physical device like a fitness tracker.
To make matters more confusing, some physical gadgets rely on software gadgets to work in conjunction with an application. For instance, the Raymio is a wearable device that helps you stay safe in the sun. The device and its interface can both be considered gadgets since each relies on a separate app that runs on a smartphone.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.
Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Daniel Nations. Daniel Nations has been a tech journalist since Updated March 06, Widgets Refers to a specific type of software.
Usable on any platform. Gadgets Refers to both hardware and software. Made for specific apps or operating systems. Advantages Easy to insert into any website. Can be used by anyone. Disadvantages Interfaces vary in quality. Some widgets seem superfluous. Advantages Interfaces can be optimized for specific platforms. Protected under intellectual property law.
They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Widgets generally respond or act upon user interaction or data events. Notice: This article also deals a bit with desktop widget s because they have a similar purpose, i. Some applications can exist in both versions.
A mash-up is the application artifact resulting from the assembly of information-rich widgets. Important note: Some writing about Mashups below doesn't feel right.
There is a confusion between simply importing and combining contents and widgets within a webtop or similar and real mashup that combines contents from services into a new kind of widgets e. Have to go over this at some point - Daniel K. They represent smaller or larger applications that usually also rely on some server, e. In particular, simple "content" widgets are increasingly popular, e. Most widgets are probably based on RSS feeds.
Some widgets also exist as Desktop widgets or can be converted from a web widget to a desktop widget. The same kind of widgets also can be installed on a client computer. However we wouldn't call them web widgets anymore, but desktop widgets computers or mobile widgets mobile phones, PDAs, etc. A web mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service. Content used in mashups typically comes from a third party via a public interface API , an RSS feed or sometimes screen scraping.
There are creative people all around the world, hundreds of millions of them, and they are going to think of things to do with our basic platform that we didn't think of. So the mashup stuff is a wonderful way of allowing people to find new ways of applying the basic infrastructures we're propagating. This will turn out to be a major source of ideas for applying Google-based technology to a variety of applications.
So web widgets can be of different kinds. They work within a kind of environment a HTML page, a webtop, etc. There is a strong relation with so-called rich internet applications. Some of these can be included as widgets, or more precisely the web service behind these can be accessed through widgets. The same is true for mashups. It's not really clear what they are.
Major categories could distinguish between different kinds of "mash-up assemblers" IBM :. See also : Using web widgets , a short user tutorial. Webtops and similar software provide users with a larger set of widgets from which they then can compose an "Ajax start page".
The widget code itself is usually small and connects to some server application. According to Eric Armstrong , to create a mashup, you need:. Programmers may use published APIs see for example the list in Webmashup. To build the mashup itself, developers may use a so-called AJAX development kit, but recently mashup development kits came into existence see links below.
Some of these are relatively simple to use others less it seems.
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