With the arrival of new Web 2.0 technologies for dynamic web development, there has been a migration
of many desktop applications to web based applications. A number of desktop services like Yahoo
Messenger, Google Talk are now available as web services known as web gadgets and are scattered
across different sites offering them. This dispersal of services across the web world has made
organizing and accessing them a challenge. There are many personal home page services like igoogle,
my yahoo, Netvibes, page flakes etc which allow users to organize their web gadgets and access them
form a single site. Web 2.0 has made it easier to design and implement such web sites using simple
and easy to use dynamic scripts and services.
This project aims in developing a similar home page service with a simple design. In this project
users can organize all their information distributed across various websites using web gadgets known
as widgets. Users can add their preferred widgets and organize them in three different columns by
dragging and dropping between them. The application will remember the user preferences and widget
organization and will display the same persistent outlay each time the user signs in to the
application. The user can also perform web search using Google or Yahoo search services. The user
can access all his scattered information in a single page thus avoiding the hassle of visiting all
his favorite web sites separately. This project demonstrates the usefulness of widget organizing
sites and the ease with which it can be built using Web 2.0 technologies.
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