Tag: YOURMINIS

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...