Yahoo Rolls Out Widgets 4

Yahoo has announced extensive updates to its cross-OS widget platform, changes which are aimed at improving performance, increasing functionality, and providing new features and services to users.

Of all the new releases in Widgets 4, the Flickr Widget is probably the one that shows the most promise. It allows users to display, upload and tag Flickr photos, as well as giving users the option of dragging and dropping large groups of photos into the widget and edit the tags and other information without needing to open a browser.

The Gallery Widget is also very nice, providing users with access to the Yahoo Widget Gallery – a repository of widgets that have been independently developed by third party widget authors.

Here are the key updates you can expect to find in
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