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¥The Emerging Widget Economy¥
Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:32:56 PM
... Well, whatevah. At least it was very interesting and stimulating to listen to and talk to some pretty cool people.the watchamacallits
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what widgets are, and what they should be called (they're mostly called widgets or gadgets though). Some widgets (Dashboard, MS Gadgets, Opera Widgets) are developed using web (two point zero) technology, while a whole bunch are developed using Flash - such as SpringWidgets, which is where I'd put my ¥10 - or some other non-standard technology (such as Yahoo! Widgets).
Some widgets run on the desktop - Dashboard, Opera, Yahoo! - and some run in web pages - Widgetbox, myspace widgets, etc - and some run on both the desktop and in web pages - MS Gadgets, SpringWidgets, etc.
Who's gonna win this race? Well, Microsoft of course. Once the Vista Sidebar and the widget engine is virally installed on all XP systems (which it will be according to the MS Live person at the conference) that's what everyone's gonna run. I also think SpringWidgets will do good, since they seem to offer the most interesting experience for the user, and they're focusing a lot on myspace, where I guess the money is.
Opera Widgets then... I don't think that's a big hit for desktop, especially after the above-mentioned viral MS Gadgets push when everyone will already have a widget engine running on their machine. And as with a great deal of Opera technology, widgets look doomed to remain in beta quality forever. On mobile and tv boxes and stuff where Opera is already in the lead of course Opera is in a great position to deliver widgets as well. And it would be great if it was possible to deploy them on my.opera...
how do opera widgets win teh interweb?
- Fix bugs (before adding new features - hi Joel! - why is that so hard to get?)
- Fix widgets.opera.com
- Make a special Opera Widgets program that runs in the background, like Yahoo! Widgets and not like a web browser※
- Interfacing with my.opera account; store data on server, share data with your friends - hello! why wasn't that included from the beginning?!
- Make them deployable to web pages, especially my.opera
- Transfer hefa to work on them, or better yet put him in charge of the whole operation
- And please speed up the canvas
- Marketing! Send hefa to more conferences (only in warm places)
- Profit!!!
But think about it: Dashboard on Mac, MS Gadgets on Windows, whatever open source clone on Linux - all delivering simple and fun small applications using the same technology on all platforms! Small differences in packaging and system calls and UI norms aside - nothing a few #ifdefs and a decent home-brew tool chain won't fix - it's a world first I'd say! (no, nobody runs java on the desktop, because it's slow and horrible and sucks.) I look forward to coding some great stuff for this future platform of ours! It'll be instupituous...
Please note that, while I work for Opera Software, my humble and ungraceful duties are completely unrelated to Opera Widgets, even though I develop some on my spare time for fun, so my speculations and opinions here are pulled out of my arse, in real time, and if there's any correlation to any strategy going on from my employer's part, it is completely coincidental and unknown to me. 
※(Actually I'm quite certain it's possible to start a new company specializing only on developing and selling the Opera widget engine.)
正月の関西への旅行
Saturday, January 7, 2006 2:21:41 AM
奈良はすごい町だと思う。東京と比べてもちろんとても小さくて、どこもぐらい歩ける。二つめの奈良にいた日、自転車を借りて、奈良公園の辺を見た。お寺と神社が多いけど、鹿がもっと多いよ。どこも鹿がいる。楽しくて、親切な鹿だ。自転車で公園の中に行くのはかんぺきだ。大仏殿と大仏は本当にすばらしい。山と森と春日大社の辺もとてもきれいだった。
うそじゃないよ!
夜に、そばを食べて、東大寺の近くの般若時に行って、ゴンゴンをした。そのあと、東大寺に行った。本当にきれいになって、中門に入ることできて、大仏の前の小さい窓を開けてあったから、すばらしかった。香を焚いて、おみくじをとってもらった。一日、京都のほうに行った。初詣のために、伏見稲荷大社(写真)に行った。本当に美しいところだよ。山の上に登って、リンリンをした。3時間掛かったから、あとで疲れたけど、稲荷で人が多くて、フェスティバルのような気分だったから、いろいろな料理を食べて、楽しかった。次の日、姫路城を見に行った。
楽しい人をたくさん会ったよ。奈良でおしゃべりすぎるフランス語のベルギーから来た日本で留学したブルノさんと千葉から来たひろしさんとよく話し合っておもしろかった。京都でアメリカのいろいろなところから来た人とたくさん会った。福岡から来た光永と呼んだおじさんと夜にウイスキーを飲んでいろいろなことを話した。簡単な日本語を使ったから日本語で話すことできて、よかった。3日の旅程は光永さんのすすめだった。
旅行日程
リンクはアルバムへ
28日:(奈良)法隆寺、薬師寺、唐招提寺
29日:(奈良)鹿、興福寺、鹿、東大寺、鹿、鹿、奈良公園、鹿、春日大社
30日:(宇治)平等院、宇治上神社、興正寺、(京都)東福寺
31日:(奈良、朝)元興寺
(大阪、昼)海遊館、心斎橋、アメリカ村、えびす橋
(奈良、夜)般若時、東大寺
1日:(京都)伏見稲荷大社
2日:(姫路)姫路城
3日:(京都)竜安寺、仁和寺、法金剛院、妙心寺、退蔵院、宝厳院、天竜寺
4日:(京都)南禅寺、南禅院、天授安、平安神宮、知恩院、八坂神社、高大寺、清水寺
日光の旅行
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:58:17 PM
日光はぜひ世界の一番の雄大無比の中だよ。山で、中善寺湖のところは美しくて静かな自然だったと思う。ほとんど北欧の極度な北のほうのようだね。しかも、東京に非常に近い!スゲエだよ。
浅草駅から日光まで2時間ぐらい掛かる。確かに日光へまた行くつもりだ。次のとき、温泉に入るかな。だけど、僕は寒さ好きで、暖かい水に入ることがすこし不快だと思う。次のとき白鳥船で行くかも。

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