Widgets are small applications, or apps, that are installed on a Web page by a user. The term "widget" is often used interchangeably with "apps." Facebook has a number of widgets or apps that can be ...

Here’s another sign that widgets and badges won’t do well in the new Facebook redesign. Nick O’Neill of All Facebook just posted a chart showing traffic to his “Bush Countdown Clock” widget, and boy, ...

Facebook, which says it's making a big announcement this week, is trying to keep details under wraps. But that hasn't stopped the Internet's rabid gossip mill. Last month, word began to circulate that ...

Facebook and its third-party developers have produced thousands of widgets -- known as applications or "apps" -- to add entertaining or useful features to Facebook profile pages, homepages, fan pages ...

People can make their own Facebook applications, and now Widgetbox users can make them faster with App Accelerator, a new Web-based helper tool. CNET Editor Jessica Dolcourt tested it out with her ...

Companies that make widgets grew quickly last year. The largest four — Slide, Myspace, Clearspring and Rockyou — each reached more than 100 million people around the world last November, according to ...