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I just stumbled upon a cool new widget from the house of Dilbert. If you don't know Dilbert, he is the absolute perfect office animal, and the daily comic strip describing his office adventures is something we all share around the office.

The Dilbert team are not only extremely funny and talented, but on their site I found the best explanation I have seen so far of what a widget is.
So I thought I would share it with you (it's not a complete quote, but you will get the gist).

What is a widget, you ask?

Whether you call it a widget, gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini or flake; a widget is a small web or desktop application that brings information to you, so you don't have to look for the information yourself. Some widgets are helpful like clocks, calculators or calendars. Some widgets let you write desktop notes and see weather forecasts. REALLY GREAT widgets do even more incredible stuff, like let you feed Dilbert in color straight to your blog, your personal web page or even your desktop.

Widgets are designed to be shared. You can send your favorite widgets to friends and co-workers, and anyone who sees a widget on your personal pages can download it for themselves.

How do I put a widget into my webjam?

On Webjam we offer quite a few widgets ready to drag to your page, and also a way for you to include any widget you like.
You can copy the code of any widget you want into an HTML module.
Wherever you see a widget you usualy have an 'Embed' option that provides you the code. Copy the entire text into an HTML module - and your widget is on the page.

we are also working on integrating with some Mega Widget providers... so watch this space for some more cool widgets coming soon.

In the mean time, here is a little example of Dilbert. Enjoy.

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Comments

written on 28-Mar-2008

vermine [http://www.starsearch.com] says:

i love it
written on 03-Apr-2008

Shanon says:

I want a background for my website
written on 03-Apr-2008

redhead says:

Hi Shanon,
When you are on your page you see all the different tab with options for your webjam.
Choose Styles. You can then choose a style from our library, and/or click on Customise style to choose specific background, colours etc.
Enjoy webjam!

Hadas
Webjam Team

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