There appears to be many description of this elusive widget. It varies greatly from each speaker to another. You can hear a stage play actor speaking of widget, entirely different with that of a computer expert.

Widget in general refers to an object of hypothetical nature. But since we are gathered here for computer purposes, let’s focus on the widget, computer term.

Widget is an interactive graphic symbol found in your computer like the scroll, pop-up windows, buttons, and bars, anything that obeys the user’s command. It is usually down loadable, fun and easy to use.

For many social networking sites like MySpace, widgets are used to make your sites more interesting and fun to use. It can do many things like organizing your blog posts and allow other interactive activities to happen in your site.