Gadgets on SharePoint - for real!
There are still nearly 90 minutes left (in PDT) until April Fool’s Day, but several people have already alerted me to a screenshot at the DashboardSpy, which appears to be a mocked up SharePoint site with some very cool (and useful) looking Gadgets for monitoring Scoble’s KPIs. I found this very ironic and extremely coincidental because just a couple of days ago, I had the idea of running real Gadgets on a real SharePoint site, and after some help from Brandon Paddock and some tweaking of my own, I created the following (very real) SharePoint site.
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Alas, I am not ready to reveal exactly how I was able to get Gadgets to run on SharePoint, but I promise that I will do so as soon as the Live.com folks give me the go-ahead. For now, I’d encourage you to start thinking about what kinds of Gadgets would be worthwhile to run on a SharePoint site, especially within a corporation. I’m thinking about sponsoring a Gadget Development Contest within the next few months on the newly created SharePoint Featured Group at the GotDotNet CodeGallery that will focus on Gadgets that SharePoint customers would actually want to use on their sites rather than most of the “fun and cool but not very useful” Gadgets that current exists on the Microsoft Gadgets site.
