Google released a little gem the other day for all of you with money to invest and those who just like to pretend you have money to invest. If you use iGoogle, they've now got a Google Finance Tab you can add to your collection. Big deal, right. They released something similar several months ago that had a bunch of Google Gadgets aggregated onto one tab that they shared... Well, this one is DIFFERENT! Not only does this gadget set have a bunch of cool financial gadgets (a gadget for your Portfolio, Top Movers, Sector Summary, and stock quote), but they talk! OK , not out loud, but to each other! Each of several specific gadgets will actually change when you change one of the others. Confused? Don't be.
If you look up a stock quote for IBM in the Stock Quote gadget, not only do you get the stock price on that gadget, but you also get Related Companies in another gadget, Company Sector/Industry reports, Company Overview and Mini Charts -- FOR IBM!
This is the only time I've seen something like this in gadget form. With this release, Google is making the function available to other developers to use inter-gadget communication as well. Can't wait to see what the community comes up with to showcase this cool feature!
See the full Google Finance blog post for more details.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Everything AND the [kitchen] Synch
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