A Widget Storm is Coming

Newsweek has already declared¹ 2007 year of the widget, and lots of little companies are hard at work, trying to make it all real. Israeli startup Musestorm², is launching a platform later this week that will allow you to widgetize any RSS feed, and create web and desktop widgets for Yahoo and Google amongst other platforms. It promises mobile and IM are on the way.

Musestorm has tied up deals with other widgeteers to allow for easily adding Musestorm widgets to PageFlakes, Sniperoo, and Weebly. Like Widgetbox³, the company also provides detailed analytics.

Other widgety action:

• WengoVisio⁴, makes a one-click video and audio call widget for blogs. We’re sorry, dear readers, but we don’t love you that much. (See TechCrunch review⁵.)
• Apple opens access to its Dashcode Developer Beta⁶. Claims “With Dashcode you will have your widget running in minutes, even if you’ve never written a line of code.” And it will be “elegant and engaging.”
• YourMinis⁷ adds the capability to publish widgets to MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster, reports Mashable.⁸