Tag: gadgets

Dataviz Google Gadgets

Google probably intends to use this technology to visualize custom data. One of the interfaces that will allow you create your own Trendalyzer visualizations is an iGoogle gadget which creates a Flash multi dimensional chart. Another gadget creates an interactive table that supports filtering and grouping, the simple table gadget lets you perform queries, while the heat map gadget “displays a map with color intensities that match given values”. There are also gadgets for pie charts, column charts, bar charts, area charts, image lines, scatter charts, organizational charts, time series.

what is the story here? these would be quite useful if documented properly

Calendar Gadgets

we’re supporting Gadgets in Google Calendar! If astrology isn’t your thing, how about games? This Sudoku gadget was created by Alex Komoroske, one of our interns on the Docs & Spreadsheets team.

i somehow missed this
2008-10-26:

we’ve worked with the engineers from the Calendar and Docs teams on 2 highly requested features, a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail.