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May 09, 2005

Yahoo! Local Traffic Dashboard Widget and RSS

Speaking of Mac OS X "Tiger", blogs have been buzzing with talk of Safari's new RSS capabilities, performance improvements, Spotlight (Apple's own "desktop search"), and Dashboard.

Dashboard is a framework for building lightweight "widgets" which pull in data from a variety of sources and display them in interesting ways on your desktop. We worked with Apple to build a Yahoo! Local Traffic Widget that's currently featured on their dashboard site. That motivated me to finally upgrade my Powerbook to Tiger this weekend.

It didn't take long for folks to dig behind the scenes and realize that it's powered by an RSS feed. It was on the O'Reilly Radar before we knew it.

It's great to see Apple putting more Web 2.0 tools on all those desktops and laptops.

Remix away!

Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Search

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Comments

a widget for Konfubabator for windows please would be nice too , i use the software because of Apple OS X Tiger comes out with yall means ya going to do one for windows too ?

Posted by: Robert Oberhoff (geektech on 360) | May 11, 2005 07:08 PM

Is this dashboard useful for certain applications only ?

Posted by: Home Decor Furnishings | April 26, 2007 10:21 AM

Local traffic widget is useful

Posted by: Sterling Silver Jewelry | April 26, 2007 10:23 AM