Way back when, examples of how to use an application invariably had demos featuring a company that made and sold widgets. Nobody actually sold widgets, but they were fun to fake.

Now there are lots of different widgets, be they Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets, Windows Gadgets, Yahoo! Widgets, Google Gadgets, Facebook Apps... ah, the list goes on and on. Widgetbox has Blidgets and other widgets, and there are Gydgets too.

Even Social Edge has widgets - or shall we call them wEdgets®? - that you can put on your blog, your MySpace or Facebook page - you can do all kinds of things with them! You can let all of your Facebook friends know about your favorite Social Edge Blogger:

We're experimenting right now to see if this is something that people will use or not. We think that there a useful way of letting people share our information out to like minded folks. We'll see what happens. We've also started a Facebook group, so we'll see how that goes as well. If you don't have time to experiment, it's probably not that big a deal for you to wait and see how some of this shakes out. If you are with a new organization, this might be an ideal way to get the word out about who you are and what you do.