http://www.missingfeatures.com/2007/08/20/99-of-widgets-are-useless-to-99-of-users/ Web sites, web apps, software, and usability Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.missingfeatures.com/2007/08/20/99-of-widgets-are-useless-to-99-of-users/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Chris Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:21:41 +0000 http://missingfeatures.com/2007/08/20/99-of-widgets-are-useless-to-99-of-users/#comment-11 I've been using Google Desktop sidebar from time to time, and one "widget" that I have come to like a lot for the Google sidebar is the mon.itor.us widget for tracking response time and state (availability) of websites, servers, and web applications that I'm responsible for. It's a nice compact widget that immediately shows me with a big red dot any problems that I should be worrying about. I’ve been using Google Desktop sidebar from time to time, and one “widget” that I have come to like a lot for the Google sidebar is the mon.itor.us widget for tracking response time and state (availability) of websites, servers, and web applications that I’m responsible for. It’s a nice compact widget that immediately shows me with a big red dot any problems that I should be worrying about.

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