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Widget dashboards - UK retail industry statistics examples
This newly released compilation of widgets created using Google gadgets highlights the way web users and in particular journalists and analysts will keep up-to-date with developments in their industry in the future. This particularly example summarises statistics and news for the UK online retail industry.
iGoogle Widget dashboard
This approach shown in the image right will be particularly important for any companies that provide information to journalists including industry analyst companies, online publishers and membership bodies.
For publishers with different types of content like the EIAA and IAB different tabs can be populated with different feeds as shown in this example:
Some users will effectively build their own trade paper based on the information sources they trust.
This particular showcase seems to be a global first?, instigated by Google for the UK retail industry. It is made up of Google Gadgets which can be installed on an iGoogle homepage. The information providers simply have to provide a feed of news content in different categories.
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