Om likes the fact that Dare wants to talk to startups about widgets.  He even thinks there should be a conference.

When I think of widgets (and blog objects, modules, whatever you wanna call them) - I think of three constituents:

- those independents who need to increase their disribution channel - using the blog gutter and module slot as their channel

- those DLAs and other large scale systems - who want tentacles into other systems - or who are made up entirely of modules (ala dashboards)

- those ‘parasites’ - who live off of other system’s user base, content base and basically form this ‘eco-system’ around these larger systems.

We’re watching these three kinds of constituents all use the same technology - and try and shoehorn their technology and business models into them.  Whether they’re called Konfabulators, widgets, gadgets, modules, blog objects - it really doesn’t matter.

It’s happening, it’s all good and we’d love to attend any sort of event around this.

I know my friends at AOL would love to attend too - and if I were a betting man, I’d say Yahoo would be on-board, as well as NetVibes and Pageflakes.

Now the question is “can we get Google to show up at such an affair?”

THis would be a PUBLIC event - right dudes?  None of this clique shit - right?

Maybe we can even get Microsoft to pay for some Alaskan King Crab legs - like the old days?

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