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 [Xerdoc Together] 也谈“入口Ӎš„革命——玩玩Firefox: 这个字面上比较容易理解，””””重组计算，同样出自Manageabilityçš„blog，“The Long Tail of Recombinant Components”ã€‚相类似于Meng Yan曾经提过的“An architecture of participation”ï¼ŒRecombinant Architecture也可能是有效解决方案的关键之一。关于重组计算的研究在Manageability的文章中也有提到，有兴趣的同学可以去参考参考。

 [XPSource] Sidebar Clone - Google’s Sidebar: Most features included in Google’s sidebar are mainly ripped off from Windows Vista’s early alpha builds (which leaked more than three (3) years ago) and MSN Explorer’s dashboard. It is an exact clone!

[Games, Life, and Stuff] Google Sidebar: The revenge of Pointcast!: The way I see it, there are four companies battling for users: Yahoo with their newly acquired Konfabulator, Apple with their Dashboard, Microsoft with their Longhorn sidebar, and now Google with Desktop 2.0.

[Eye of the Storm] Googlesoft... [update 3]: Since then, the technology has been reused in a academic experiment called ConferenceXP [Viewable in the Learning eXPerience Project video], and most noteably appeared over and over again over the last three years in Windows Vista [Longhorn] demos and presentations. Obviously Microsoft telegraphed their belief in the importance of updated personal information in a peripheral manner...executives for years called out MSN Explorer with the Dashboad as a shining example. 

[Longhornblogs.com] Adam Kinney on Longhorn : Apple's new Dashboard: The really interesting aspect is that the widgets are created with XHTML, CSS and Javascript, just like web applications, but broken outside of the browser. The widgets can even use something called Core Image, which allows the developer to leverage the GPU to render his widget.

[Microsoft.blognewschannel.com] » Longhorn InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel: I picture some sort of floating 3D cube, with the Start menu on one face, the taskbar buttons on another, an advanced notification area (think Dashboard) on another, a search interface (for web and desktop search) on another, RSS on another, and simple shortcuts on the other. Does any of that make sense?

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