W8-A new application of Google Gaget

Google Gadgets are mini-applications that work with the Google homepage, Google Desktop, or any page on the web. They can range from simple HTML to complex applications, and can be a calendar, a weather globe, a media player, or anything else you can dream up.
Introdued by one of my classmates, I begin to notice a recent popular small gadget on internet, it is called Google Gadget. It really make my home page and my desk top much beautiful. Let's see the example of google below:

I am so exciting to see such small gadget in my web page, it is quite easy to make it. On the internet, there are hundreds of thousands of these kind of things. Most of them are not just for fun, some of clock and calendar gadget are so nice to be put on personal website. Thanks to XML technology, when users want to use this gadget, they don't need to down load any thing from Google, it is just a link to google, everything is done on servers side. XML pays a very important rule in this application, it is used to tranform data between user and server.
Below is the objective of Google that provides gadget service:
"Now anyone can have a great-looking website with automatically updating content," said Adam Sah, Google Gadgets Architect. "By making Google Gadgets available for you to add to your webpage, we're working to connect developers with enthusiastic consumers and to make information universally accessible and useful to the individual user."(Google Press Center)
How to use the gadget:
1. search for the gadget website
2.get the link of certain gadget, as the above gadget we get the link:
active learner, you can create your own gadget and share with other people on the internet, some web pages teach how to make a google gadget:

The Google Gadgets API is a simple way to create little applications that run on multiple sites, including Google Personalized Homepage, Google Desktop, Google Page Creator, and thousands of sites all over the web that use Google Gadgets for Your Webpage. Google Gadgets reach tens of millions of users every week; even better, Google provides free hosting, free bandwidth and an easy way to submit your gadgets to the official directory, where users from all around the world come to find them.

Gadgets are so easy to write that you can create your first one in 5 minutes and even turn existing web content into a gadget. There is no special signup, and nothing you need to download. Get started today:

1	Write a gadget The Developer Guide walks you through how to use the Google Gadgets API to write a gadget. At a basic level, a gadget is just an XML file that wraps existing web content or applications.
2	Enjoy the fruits of your labor You can then add your gadget to your personalized homepage, Google Desktop, or Google Page Creator. You can also add your gadget to your own webpage if you can find it in the Google Gadgets for Your Webpage directory. And be sure to let your friends know, so they too can benefit from your hard work and revel in your web development skills.
3	Submit your gadget to Google Once you've completed a gadget that you want to share with the Google community, you can submit it to request its inclusion in the content directory, which reaches millions of Google users across multiple Google products.

For more gadgets, we can go to google gadget for homepage:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?source=gapi