Random Thoughts on Widget

A few days ago, I was doing a weekly topic sharing on Yupoo, and the topic I discussed was "Out-of-the-box ideas from bystanders" (if you can't open it, please use rss subscription) - "The Widget Planet". I shared this article in a Douban group, everyone can go take a look.

I. About widget

Regarding widgets, it should be said that it is a term that is difficult to define clearly. Initially referring to mini products or components, it now has multiple layers of meaning, precisely because of the rapid development of widgets in recent years, leading Oxford Dictionary to continuously redefine widget within two years. And in the Internet domain, widgets may seem like small elements, but it's hard to say whether they are guiding a direction in the future.

Quoting a segment from Ravich's words, the founder of Slide:

If someone creates a slideshow about Jay Chou on Slide, then Slide obtains an initial piece of information about this user. If he also asks a question about the Xbox gaming console in "My Questions", Slide's backend then acquires a second piece of information. Perhaps this user sends the Jay Chou slideshow to one of his friends, allowing the computer to almost confirm that the second user also likes Jay Chou. When the second user sends a slideshow about Yao Ming to the first user, new clues emerge - in people's behaviors and their interactions with each other, computers can continuously learn everything about this user: for example...