I talk alot about widgets here (for good reason), and it seems that 2007 has lived up to its name of “The Year of the Widget.”
Here’s an interesting piece on a small company that made it big with a little help from the widget:
SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly a decade, GarageBand.com was the quintessential struggling Web company, barely hanging on as it burned through $17 million.
Until widgets.
Since it developed a widget, one of the mini-Web applications now flourishing on Facebook and other social-networking sites, the company — renamed iLike — has become an overnight sensation.