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Vista Gadgets In The News - All Of Them Supported By My Team

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I feel like a proud parent :-)

My team has been working since before the launch of Vista to help forward thinking Canadian companies bring new web-connected experiences to market.  One of the ways we are doing this is by leveraging the new Sidebar Gadgets in Windows Vista.

Canoe has a good article highlighting some of the great Canadian gadgets.

 

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"Canadians are getting into the act, too and are in the throes of developing useful tools. Not surprisingly, the Canadian banks and financial institutions lead the way. For starters, TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. has developed Market View, a gadget that enables users to view major North American market indices and stocks, as well as launch TD Waterhouse WebBroker, directly from their Windows Vista-based desktop.

Banks, who have the perfect business model for the Web, want to make it easier for you to do on-line business with them. After all, the more you can do on line and the less you have to call or visit them, the more money they make! Anyway, the TD Canada Trust group is probably the leading bank in terms of understanding and using new technology. They seem to “get it” more than the other banks.

Speaking of getting it, the Workopolis Canada (https://www.workopolis.com/workopolis\_gadget) job site and resume database, uses a gadget for potential employees and employers who tie in the Workopolis back-end system. Users can search for jobs regionally, by career focus and by job title and also shows comparative information of jobs to resumes across the various regions in Canada.

The Vancouver, BC-based company Maximizer Software uses a gadget to extend the power of its Maximizer Enterprise CRM suite to the Windows Vista desktop. The Address Book gadget allows business users to search for a company, contact or individual in the Maximizer CRM system without leaving the desktop. The Opportunity Manager gadget allows salespeople and sales managers to display reports summarizing all current sales opportunities right on the desktop. Together, these gadgets allow business users to access their day-to-day customer information instantly, without having to open their CRM system.

Another Vancouver company, Flowfinity Wireless Inc. a firm known for its work with Research in Motion, uses a gadget to create a ‘super-shortcut” with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Using a checklist metaphor that information workers can easily relate to, this Sidebar gadget provides an intuitive and rapid method of tracking progress. Users can instantly access and interact with their checklist without having to leave their current work to access a services list in Microsoft SharePoint."

One gadget that the article doesn't mention (because it isn't on the Gallery yet - but soon) is the new Weather Network Gadget.

Big thanks to Jerome, Cigdem and Ryan on my team for driving the gadgets mentioned above.

Want to build one of these for your company? Check out MSDN.  If you are in Canada and doing cool work in this area, let me know.

Want to know the one gadget we want more than anything for Canada?  Simple: TRAFFIC.

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