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Um, What's a Widget?

Ginnypenny
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November 03, 2008, 12:16:17 PM
So, I was reading the latest Rangefinder and they had a little article about blogs for your business website and they mentioned using apps and widgets.  What's a widget?  Do I need one?  Do I want one?  What do they do?  Smiley
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corfolio23
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Reply #1 - November 03, 2008, 12:29:19 PM
looks like its eye candy and other stuff for your webpage.
http://www.widgetbox.com/

A really good question for Bob I think, should you wish to know the technicalities of it.

 Big Grin

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Ginnypenny
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Reply #2 - November 03, 2008, 01:00:14 PM
Thanks for the link, kinda looks like a lot of junk though.  I guess I just like things streamlined and professional.  If there is too much stuff on a website I get overwhelmed.
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Reply #3 - November 03, 2008, 03:36:43 PM
It's usually just a little bit of JavaScript that does something flashy on your site. 
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Mike Hodgson
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Reply #4 - November 03, 2008, 04:30:34 PM
It's a Mac thing, I have a number of them, especially "Yoda" that one is fun. Type in a sentence and yoda speaks, too funny. Yoda has quiet the cussing mouth.  LOL
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Reply #5 - November 03, 2008, 05:17:06 PM
I had no idea what they were.

To me a wigit is an imaginary device/item/thing used in describing a manufacturing process.

"If your machine makes 45 wigits an hour and you have to service it after 2000 wigits...."
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Reply #6 - November 03, 2008, 05:31:06 PM
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"If your machine makes 45 wigits an hour and you have to service it after 2000 wigits...."

Ahh, Six Sigma hell...
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Ginnypenny
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Reply #7 - November 03, 2008, 07:55:57 PM
Bob, that's funny, because prior to being in the wedding/event industry I audited freight invoices for big companies and we would say "if you ship x amount of widgets it costs y dollars".
it's quite a common term and probably how they got their name anyway.
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Reply #8 - November 03, 2008, 08:07:52 PM
Quote from: jkleb on November 03, 2008, 05:31:06 PM
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"If your machine makes 45 wigits an hour and you have to service it after 2000 wigits...."

Ahh, Six Sigma hell...
Yes, I know this abyss quit well.
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