Widget for our site

There was a day when we used "widget" as a generic for, well, almost anything. How language moves on.

For many people, the "widget" is the thing in a can of beer that gives it a proper head when you pour it out into your glass (see the 1969 patent application by Guinness or the 1989 patent application by Ernest James Price and the trade marks WIDGETPLUS SYSTEM and WORTHINGTON CREAMFLOW BITTER CREAMFLOW WIDGET owned by Coors. There's also a good write-up generally in Wikipedia).

However, widget is increasingly popular in web terminology. Again, Wikipedia has a good entry for Web Widget. Not surprisingly, the "verbalisation" of nouns means that you can now "widgetize" things and you might notice on our blog we've got a new button on the top left that lets you get our blog feed by means of a widget you can embed in your own site or blog. Blog + widget = blidget, it seems. Of course, whether anyone uses it is a different story!