Facebook successfully blocked the "Secret Crush" widget last week for violation of its terms of service. But in the wake of the scheme, the adware company Zango is ...

Widgets are small applications, or apps, that are installed on a Web page by a user. The term "widget" is often used interchangeably with "apps." Facebook has a number of widgets or apps that can be ...

People can make their own Facebook applications, and now Widgetbox users can make them faster with App Accelerator, a new Web-based helper tool. CNET Editor Jessica Dolcourt tested it out with her ...

Companies that make widgets grew quickly last year. The largest four — Slide, Myspace, Clearspring and Rockyou — each reached more than 100 million people around the world last November, according to ...

Facebook and its third-party developers have produced thousands of widgets -- known as applications or "apps" -- to add entertaining or useful features to Facebook profile pages, homepages, fan pages ...

A new Windows 11 preview build is now available in the Insider Dev Channel. Today's build is 25284 and adds support for Facebook Messenger in the Widgets Panel. There are also a handful of fixes and ...

For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned ...

Facebook has extended the functionality of its Connect data portability service with a widget application that lets Web publishers add comment boxes to their sites. The company, still reeling from a ...