The WePad videos at Engadget show so called “live Widgets” that are placed on a large, scrolling plane. These Widgets are small applications that limit their appearance and interaction to one simple specialized visualization or task.
What if these Widgets can be designed to sense their neighbors, spread out connections, exchange data and provide contextual information related to their proximity?
What if these Widgets could be moved, cloned or even transmit themselves to other Planes.
What if these Planes could be infinite in size.
What if these Planes can span multiple devices.
What if these Planes can be accessed by multiple users simultaneously?
Then, wouldn’t we have freed our applications from lock-in stores and communication deprivation?
You do want the maps Widget nearby your address book just automatically show the location of a friend on the map? Don’t you?
Welcome to Widgetland, your ultimate, intelligent Personal Assistant, nothing else needed.
Applications are dead, Widgets are alive.