Image: Beware, the web widgets are coming. Rob DunlaveyFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
Web widgets bring Internet perks to the biggest screen in most people’s homes.
The Internet revolution may finally be televised.
Innocuous little software applications, popularly known as “widgets,” may turn out to be the back door to your TV screen that Internet companies have been waiting for.
For more than a decade, businesses have been trying to make the Internet available on the largest screen in most homes. In 1996, Time Warner offered WebTV, which failed to find an audience and folded. Even today, projects like Hewlett Packard’s MediaSmart (2006) and Apple TV (2007) have yet to win over large numbers of viewers, hampered by complicated setups or limited programming choices.
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