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Yahoo To Use Widgets To Bring The Internet To Televisions

By Anna Johnson on August 26th, 2008

Yahoo is planning to introduce the Internet to people’s television sets by means of its newly-announced “Widget Channel”.

The Widget Channel will be a platform for widget developers, enabling them to create widgets to display on TV screens in JavaScript, XML, HTML and Flash.

Yahoo will establish a directory of widgets and has already signed up Blockbuster, CBS, CinemaNow, Disney-ABC, eBay, Joost, MTV, Samsung, Toshiba, Twitter and Comcast for the initiative.

Comcast plans to test the Widget Channel framework in the first half of 2009.

Source: Frederic Lardinois, “Yahoo Wants to Bring the Internet to Your Living Room”, Read Write Web, August 20, 2008

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