Hi Shtein, Even though Google is planing to abandon iGoogle as a product, the use of open social gadgets have received widespread adoption over the web. Even between many google products itself gadgets and open social technologies are used extensively. I personally think, abandoning iGoogle means simply it failed as a product, but the underlying technology is very much useful and used across.
In the enterprise gadgets still provides a superior flexibility in-terms of portlet technologies. For instance, WSO2 is re-thinking and re-inventing the Gadget Server (GS 2.0) to be more content oriented. where users can create their own content pages with a mix of gadgets and other static content pieces. We too believe the column-ness iGoogle like dashboard limits the capabilities of presentation, hence planing to provide gadgets as a technology where you can add to the content pages as appropriate. The value in gadgets are that, as a collection it can provide a holistic view/presentation of multiple remote systems. Hence IMO, abandoning iGoogle does not have an impact of open social gadget adoption. Regards, /Nuwan On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Shtein, Ilya <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi,**** > > I am wondering how the impending abandoning of iGoogle is perceived in the > Enterprise community, and where you see the Gadget Server going once that > happens. We currently have an enterprise portal, which can accommodate > DIV-based same domain widgets (following a homegrown data contract), as > well as Google/ OpenSocial gadgets using Shindig behind the scenes to > render the gadgets. The goal in supporting the Gadgets was to adhere to an > industry standard, while allowing the users to put useful gadgets they see > on iGoogle on their portal pages.**** > > With Google abandoning the major source of gadgets (iGoogle), we are > questioning the need to support the Gadgets in the light of significant > advancements in Web2.0 / HTML5, especially cross-document messaging, the > ability to support cross-domain requests, the growth of REST services, etc. > **** > > Can the community please share your opinions about the trends, and the > role that the Google / OpenSocial Gadget spec can play as a unifying > platform in this new world.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > Ilya Shtein > IT Architect Senior > FIS Enterprise Strategy and Governance > e-mail: [email protected]**** > > ** ** > _____________ > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the > message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message > in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please > be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving > and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > User mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/user > > -- *Thanks & Regards, Nuwan Bandara Associate Technical Lead & Member, MC, Development Technologies WSO2 Inc. - lean . enterprise . middleware | http://wso2.com blog : http://nuwanbando.com; email: [email protected]; phone: +94 11 763 9629 * <http://www.nuwanbando.com/>
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