The Ubiquitous Widgets

Widgets are everywhere these days. What started out from RSS feeds and start pages to later become part of the mainstream in social networking, blogs, & portals, and has recently been thriving in mobile phone applications.

Recent News Updates:

• Jun 9, Nokia translates Web apps to mobile widgets
• Jun 8, 10 Billion Widgets Served... And Counting
• Jun 8, I've Seen the Future, and it's Full of Widgets
• Jun 7, Yahoo! Launches TV Widgets for YouTube, Showtime, eBay
• Jun 5, Mint Integrates with MyYahoo Start Pages
  
• Jun 5, Novarra Widgets Nominated in Mobile Innovation Tournament

Google Trends:


Taking a further look at the regional breakout of the top ten countries shows:


Countries included were:

• Asia: Indonesia #1, Singapore #2, Taiwan #3
• Europe: Switzerland #5, France #7, Sweden #10
• ROW: Australia #4, India #8
• North America: US #6, Canada #9

It's interesting that when you combine Asia and ROW, you get 59% of total weighted search. I would have thought that US would have been a little higher with the popularity of Facebook and other SaaS applications. Perhaps an indicator of things to come.