I’m sure this feature is coming. All of the widget homepages have been very closed systems, but I see that changing quickly. Both Netvibes and yourminis released new versions this week. New API’s are being released.

Because yourminis is 100% Flash (at the moment), they might have a tougher time providing this functionality than netvibes or pageflakes.

For the HTML/AJAX based sites like netvibes and pageflakes, being able to import a widget should be trivial. They should just be able to provide a simple ‘container’ widget which runs anything you put inside.

The first to offer this feature is going to get a nice adoption boost.

I’ll keep this thread updated with news as I hear it.

Exporting widgets is very cool. How about the opposite – importing widgets found in “the wild” onto yourminis, netvibes, pageflakes, et al.

For me, it’s much more important that I have a place to put my widgets other than my blog sidebar. Do you know which, if any, of the widget platforms allows folks to simply copy/paste their embed code into their account?

Thanks, Tim