Widgets were and continue to be a thriving industry. There are countless startups that are centered around widgets. The primary players are widget creators (MyBlogLog, etc), widget distributors (Clearspring, etc) and widget platforms/hosts (Pageflakes, iGoogle, etc). The most prevalent soure of widget hosts are start pages. Whether it be Netvibes, Pageflakes or iGoogle, there is a large market for startpages. Startpages are extremely popular within the tech community and recently they have grown outside of the tech community. via allfacebook.