How far can you push a widget? YouTube video embeds, quite possibly the most successful widgets of all time, are seriously failing these days. Click on most any embedded clip, it seems, and you’ll get a “This video is no longer available� warning. Perhaps this is a fatal flaw of widgets; maybe they are best used for delivery of information that is time-sensitive and forgettable, like the weather or the stocks (more on newteevee)

I believe it’s a two sided story:

1. the widgets that have great functionality embedded in them and limit the amount of information required from a server have very much chances to be the next big thing.
2. the information-based widget that simply pull data from a database / website are going to die if no-one comes up with a smart idea to solve this…

meanwhile, I’m having a lot of fun with new and interesting widgets from all over the web