Of course it is.

This weeks Web 2.0 word is widget. In its most basic form, it is a component of a graphical user interface with which a user interacts. Basically, a space that contains data you are able to interact with. For our Web 2.0 sake, it’s an applet that user generated/guided content can be entered. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. The theory behind the widget is code re-use. A standardized chunk of code that can be “dropped-in” with out much configuration, often standardized by individual site environments. You will see their intense use on the startpage sites I am reviewing but you can also notice them elsewhere; Google advertisement, MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube content is also widget based.

Now, I’m just delaying the reviews of the startpages until later this weekend. Turns out there were a lot of them to look through. Until then, I still need to post some sort of 2.0 nonsense.

I realized I haven’t spoken much about the functionality of my site. It is quite 2.0.

Register. Your profile is user generated content that allows for you to participate and create the user generated content on this site. Finally, the widgets on the right sidebar are yours to move. You can “grab” them by the title bar, click and hold, and move them to the position you want. The great thing is that if you have cookies on, your browser will remember where you placed them last and keep it that way. So if you’ve grown tired of my cute cartoon face, don’t hesitate to move it down.