Yahoo!7 is an Australian Internet portal that is owned by a 50/50 partnership consisting of Seven Network and Yahoo! Inc.. The portal was launched on January 30, 2006.
Yahoo! 7 contains content of both the Seven Network and Yahoo!, and includes a mobile phone site through a partnership with m.Net.
As of 30/10/06, Seven News, Seven Sport, and the former seven.com.au website have been merged with Yahoo!7 services.
In 2006 Gruden approached Yahoo!7 with some original concepts for Widgets, these concepts would later be used for the Disney Channel project.
There are two commonly referred to type of widgets are the Yahoo! Widgets and the Dashboard widgets of Apple Macintosh computer users (Microsoft refers to them as Gadgets both in Windows Vista and the Windows Live system.). KlipFolio refers to them as Klips, and Google Desktop refers to them as either panels or gadgets. Widgets, in this case, are downloadable interactive virtual tools that provide services such as showing the user the latest news, the current weather, a dictionary, a map program, sticky notes, or even a language translator, among other things.
A desktop widget typically provides easy access to frequently used functions or provides some visual information. Typical widgets include News aggregators, clocks, calculators, calendars, desktop notes and weather forecasts.
Yahoo!7 where so impressed that they encaged Gruden to develop Widgets on behalf of Yahoo!7 for there clients.
The first one we developed was a gossip Widget for Famous mag, this widget build the daily key headlines from an XML feed including article title and image.
This widget was delivered within two weeks and was very well received by the client and the readers of Famous mag.
Since then Gruden has gone on to produce numerous Widgets for Yahoo!7 including, flight trackers, news and video Wigets.
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