Yourminis widgets now on your Desktop

By Vivek | March 20th, 2007 at 09:31 pm ET         

I had written about the upcoming compatibility launch of Yourminis widgets on PCs and Macs via Apollo few days back. Well today Yourminis launched the Yourminis air file which works on top of Adobe Apollo to deliver Yourminis widgets right on your desktop. I have been playing with the service for past few minutes and really impressed with the early release from Yourminis. I think Yourminis in fact might be the first major product to be launched on Apollo.

Only thing missing right now is the ability to login into my account via Apollo/Desktop and pull in all the widgets from my online Yourminis account. I had a quick message exchange with Alex at Yourminis and he mentioned that they are already looking to enable that option.

With the launch of Apollo integration Yourminis has beaten HomePage heavyweights Netvibes, Pageflakes,…… in delivering widgets to the desktop. Google gadgets do work on the desktop but again you need to install Google Desktop to get them going. Yourminis advantage is that Apollo designed to be an application development and deployment platform. Sooner or later users will be getting Apollo installed onto their machines, which will not be the case with Google Desktop. Although Musestorm does not directly compete in the homepage space, it would be worth mentioning that the widget syndication and analytics service had launched compatibility with Google Desktop earlier this year.

Links:
StartupSquad.com widget at Yourminis