You know those widgets that you get with Google Desktop? Google are offering them for use on your webpages, too.

The gadgets are here.

“Start-ups like Widgetbox (http://www.widgetbox.com/) are pointing the way by offering a marketplace of different mini-applets for users to add to sites, while Ning (http://www.ning.com/), a company begun by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen, offers a simple way for users to create whole sites out of such Web-based applications, Li said”