Posted Thursday, June 15th, 2006, at 11:31 am Eastern by Mark Wallace

I like the idea of WidSets (which Joi Ito blogs today), a new service from Nokia that lets users create little widgets for Java-enabled phones that are delivered on the fly. Joi:

It’s a very cool service that allows people to make simple widgets which get sent to your phone and run on your phone. They are similar to OS X widgets and do various things like read RSS feeds, show flickr images for a particular tag, or show a Technorati feed. It’s still in Beta, but seems to work well. It works on Java phones so will work on non-Nokia phones as well.

Seems like you could do cool 3pointD-type stuff with this and GeoRSS, maybe even combining it with a GPS-enabled device for even better action. Like a quick feed of interesting places nearby. Easy to hack together. Should be interesting.


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