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10 November 2007

WidSets has undergone a big facelift and is no longer in beta

I was visiting WidSets, since I heard they had a Twitter wid.* I _had_ to go to the main site, since the mobile site kept sending me a noob packet and there was no way for me to sign in, only to register as a noob (tsk tsk).

Well, when I went to the main site, I saw the huge change. At the moment, there are some UI issues, such as the fancy mindmap-like browser (see below) is crashing and I can't seem to reorder my wids (why I can't re-order on the phone has been a gripe of mine since day 1).

I really haven't explored the whole thing, but some things caught my eye:
- There's a bit of levity. When the phone is connected to the service, there's a thumbs up. And the search box has a dog to, yes, fetch stuff.

Picture 1-4

- There's this interesting mindmap-like browser to explore all the widgets based on categories or tags or what.

Picture 2


- One interesting thing is that they now have a profile associated with your WidSets account. I'm not so sure where this is going. I suppose the profile adds a bit to the username when contributing WidSets, and contributors can't be more than a small fraction of total users. Do they suppose to create a community (a tired word of mine) around WidSets? Once again, maybe around the contributors, but not _all_ the users. But, the tool is now there. Let's see how it develops.
Picture 3


If you are WidSets user, you will have received a message regarding the update. If not, it's still an interesting and useful service, especially if you don't have a smartphone. For me, I always seem to reach for it when I have a simple, small, and contained problem to solve. Let's see if it helps with Twitter.

Link: WidSets:

The new WidSets service has finally been launched and we have now come out of Beta.

*With the verbosity of my tweeps, I quickly over-ran my quota of incoming. But, the lovely N95 can't do anything else if the browser is open, so m.twitter.com is not a long term solution for me. Argh.

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