Dunno if anyone would be interested in this, but I thought it was neat and pretty dog-gone nice of 'em.
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n the latest step in its continuing effort to focus the Web services model around its own servers, Google this morning introduced a way to enable individuals to embed some Google Gadgets -- those handy utilities that many run in the background using the Google Desktop program -- within Web pages, without the need to install software.
The concept is called Google Universal Gadgets, and although it sounds uncharacteristically sweeping, the idea is to let Web sites perform simple functions provided by Google's servers at no cost.
A Web page designer can select from a gallery of gadgets, then to a limited extent customize the chosen gadget's style and appearance. When the gadget looks just right, Google provides the gadget's source code that can be dropped into an HTML page. The source code is actually a <SCRIPT> tag that calls the resource from the server, and runs it in place...
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Full article:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Goog...ets/1159985964
Google Premieres Free Web Gadgets 
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