Netvibes on Widget Economy

Tuesday February 13th 2007, 1:08 am

Written by: Brian Benzinger

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“Widgets are killing the Webpage. It is time to go to something else. We are entering the widget economy. We are going there no matter what.” - Netvibes CEO Tariq Krim, Will Widgets Kill the Webpage?

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# 1. cameron on Feb 17, 2007 at 6:35 am

That’s just silly to say.

Widgets are contricted to their size. Not everyone wants to do everything in small boxes. Personally I think anything that isn’t useful to the task at hand is superfluous.

For instance, on NetVibes, I just want to check my mail. While widgets are nice for an overview, everything else on the page is worthless to me at that point in time.

I can see widgets being very popular for “dashboard” ideas, like in OS X or Basecamp. But replacing web pages? I doubt it.

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