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Widgets as Personalised Mini-Portals

Widgets as Personalised Mini-Portals
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Author(s): Con Nikakis (Victoria University, Australia)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch195

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Abstract

Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2006) describes the term widget as a “... general purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented” (Widgets, 2006) with the origin of the term attributed to the 1924 play “Beggar on Horseback,” by George Kaufman and Marc Connelly (Kaufman & Connelly, 1924), where it was used to describe a product manufactured by one of the characters.

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