<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Odysen Notes]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://odysenblog.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Matt]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://odysenblog.wordpress.com/author/mattkavan/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Ubiquitous Widgets]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Widgets are everywhere these days.    What started out from RSS feeds and start pages to later become part of the mainstream in social networking, blogs, &amp; portals, and has recently been thriving in mobile phone applications.</p>
<p>Recent News Updates:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jun 9, <a href="http://telephonyonline.com/mobile-apps/news/nokia-mobile-widgets-0609/" target="_blank">Nokia translates Web apps to mobile widgets</a></li>
<li>Jun 8, <a href="http://blog.widgetbox.com/2009/06/10-billion-widgets-served-and-counting/" target="_blank">10 Billion Widgets Served&#8230; And Counting</a></li>
<li>Jun 8, <a href="http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/06/ive-seen-the-future-and-its-full-of-widgets.html" target="_blank">I&#8217;ve Seen the Future, and it&#8217;s Full of Widgets</a></li>
<li>Jun 7, <a href="http://www.itvt.com/story/4687/yahoo-launches-tv-widgets-youtube-showtime-ebay" target="_blank">Yahoo! Launches TV Widgets for YouTube, Showtime, eBay</a></li>
<li>Jun 5, <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5279951/mint-integrates-with-my-yahoo-start-pages" target="_blank">Mint Integrates with MyYahoo Start Pages</a></li>
<li>Jun 5, <a href="http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=15771940" target="_blank">Novarra Widgets Nominated in Mobile Innovation Tournament</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Google Trends:<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=widget" target="_blank"><img style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;width:400px;height:199px;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GwFHETd1aUU/Si5nSaMkhdI/AAAAAAAABUg/8x1D7PUXjtA/s400/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Taking a further look at the regional breakout of the top ten countries shows:</p>
<p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GwFHETd1aUU/Si5vJRou0RI/AAAAAAAABUw/lZ_cMNOxV4c/s1600-h/Picture+8.png"><img style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;width:400px;height:320px;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GwFHETd1aUU/Si5vJRou0RI/AAAAAAAABUw/lZ_cMNOxV4c/s400/Picture+8.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />
Countries included were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Asia:  Indonesia #1, Singapore #2, Taiwan #3</li>
<li>Europe:  Switzerland #5, France #7, Sweden #10</li>
<li>ROW: Australia #4, India #8</li>
<li>North America:  US #6, Canada #9</li>
</ul>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting that when you combine Asia and ROW, you get 59% of total weighted search.  I would have thought that US would have been a little higher with the popularity of Facebook and other SaaS applications.  Perhaps an indicator of things to come.</p>
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