Google Adds Widgets to Maps
Widgets are typically silly little applications that run on your machine and, say, show you how much time is left until Bush leaves office, or showing random silly bumper stickers. Maps are things that show the locations of things. Google's bringing the two together with the launch of what it's calling Mapplets, which are little widgets that you can plug into Google Maps. Early examples include one that locates crop circles and another that identifies beautiful locations on earth, like the Andes in Chile.
The selection's a little limited now, but Google's also released an application interface for programmers to work with, meaning it shouldn't be long before dozens of user-created mapplets start to pop up all over the place locating all sorts of things you probably didn't know you'd ever need to find.
From TechCrunch
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