What?
Widgets are gimmicky little computer programs that I almost never use.
They are novelties.
If 2006 was the Year of YouTube — and it was — then 2007 is the year of TV delivered on-line.
Of course we already have TV on-line. But in 2007 the general public will finally catch on in numbers.
It will only happen if on-line video and TV are effortlessly delivered to our existing televisions. That will happen in a big way in the coming year.
That big monthly payment you make for crappy cable TV is an attractive target for entrepreneurs.
If for some reason that glad revolution is delayed … then 2007 will be the year when RSS finally starts to catch on with the great unwashed.
Widgets?
Give me a break, Newsweek.
TIME magazine’s man of the year is “You” and if that is the case, then widget is a good way to express yourself. Newsweek is declaring 2007 “Year of the Widget.”
Rick McCharles 