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Yahoo! joins rush to get widgets onto mobile phones

Karl Lattimer

erm binary yahoo widgets? 

I seem to remember a talk at Guadec 2007 where Stuart Langridge stated yahoo! widgets started using a binary format from version 3 or 4...

So I take it they're now reversing that decision?

coxy

go, widget, go. 

I use Yahoo! Go 2. It's quite a nice phone application which brings together a whole host of Yahoo! services together. To be honest, I'll be gutted if they strip some of the features of Yahoo! Go to make way for these widgets.

I've also Widsets (https://www.widsets.com/) installed because I was intregued by how widgets would look on a mobile phone. Widsets is made really well and it looks nice too - but it's not something I use often... at all.

Dave

Yahoo can make as many as they want 

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Just keep that bullshit off my phone and I'm happy!

Andy Shulman

Yahoo! joins! rush! to! get! widgets! onto! mobile! phones! 

Coat

See title.

Stone Fox

Where! are! the! exclamation! marks! 

the! title! says! it! all!

nickj

me too 

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too few !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stizzleswick

I! agree! with! Stone! Fox! 

Coat

and! nickj!

Sam Therapy

I! agree! with! Dave! 

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It's! a! load! of! bollocks!

Andy G

i! Think! El! Reg! Is! Slipping! 

Flame

im! very! disappointed! with! the! lack! of! exclamation! marks! fro! this! Yahoo! Story!

Pull! Your! Finger! Out! Guys!

Jared G

Mobile Widgets 

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Well I don't know a huge amount about coding these mobile widgets, but I have coded a few yahoo widgets on the Clearspring widget platform. Takes 30 seconds to register, http://www.clearspring.com/register/

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