USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.
Widgets are a Web accessory that people are using in rapidly growing numbers to jazz up their home pages, blogs and profiles on social networking platforms like Facebook or MySpace. Users of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) new Vista operating system can also put widgets on the desktop of their computers.
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