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A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages.

For example, the "Help Azaria" module in the left column of this site uses a widget from ChipIn.com (to test it, make a donation to Azaria's Dolphin Therapy fund to see the progress bar go up - wink wink). Many "web 2.0" sites offer widgets for blogs and other sites to display their content or tools for performing a specific task (like raising money via the ChipIn widget). It is a great way to add content or functionality to your site with very little effort. The process for embedding a widget to your site is usually just copying and pasting a snippet of code into the appropriate location.

Today (or yesterday – depends on time zone), the much awaited .CO Domains have been made public. This means that anyone now can purchase a domain name that ends with the TLD (top level domain) of dot CO. If you want to increase your options for branding your online presence, interested in grabbing that favorite “keyword”, a domainer, or simply just to have your own custom domain name, now is the time to jump the band wagon and register, because the speculation and the stampede of people registering .CO domains are growing exponentially. Right now, the .CO domain registration is somewhere between $25 to $30 per registration, depending on the registrar you are using.

Just a day after the release of Joomla 1.5.19 with Mootools 1.2.4 support, the Joomla project announced another update: 1.5.20.

Apparently, there were some issues with 1.5.19. These have been adressed in this release.

Yesterday, the Joomla! project released an update to the core: 1.5.19.

The update includes some medium level security updates. The biggest new feature in this update, though, is the support for version 1.2.4 of the the Mootools javascript framework.

Read on to learn what this means for your Joomla website and why it took over two years to get there.

Today I was trying to share something with My facebook friends ( My facebook profile is like a mini blog for me). Once I finished writing my status update and hit the post button, Facebook gave my expected error:

Your status update is too long. The maximum Status length is 420 character, but it’s 1303 character long. A little hack can help you solve this problem

There are some amazing new and improved features in Joomla 1.6 and the new permission system (ACL) might just be the most popular of them all.

The Joomla Project annouced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 5 (download) yesterday.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 4 release on Jun 28, the team has fixed approximately 65 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad.Great work by everyone involved. If you haven't already done so, join the Bug Squad now!