As part of a combined excercise in researching useful content distribution platforms – I found myself looking at SpringWidgets.com. The service provides a platform for creating widgets that can be embedded into blogs and websites. They can also be used on your desktop via a downloadable program.
In order to test out the system I decide to use the feeds from our Biotech community Site – Biofind. The result is what you can see below.
This is a good example of the “software-as-a-service” approach to development. We could have spent a huge amount of time and effort in creating a widget platform but it make much more commercial sense to use an existing platform and concentrate on supplying and tracking content.
