Back in April, I attended a Computers in Libraries conference in Washington DC. It was a really cool experience and I had a lot of fun with it. One of the seminars that attended was on mobile development. This comprised of Gadgets, Widgets, and Apps. Gadgets are small little programs that run in someone's personal webpage like my.yahoo.com or iGoogle.com. Widgets are the same thing, but they run on your PC's desktop or Dashboard on your mac. Some good examples of these include weather and stock tickers.
One of the things I've been working on is developing a Google Gadget for the library catalog, serials/journals, and Google Scholar. Eventually, this will be available for download to people's personal webpages as well as embedded in useful pages throughout USU's websites.
It's been really fun working on developing something like this. It's basically an XML document with XHTML elements for retreive the information from the website. Now, once a user puts in the search terms, it will automatically forward it, perform the search, and redirect to the search results page.
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