Its basically the same thing, but one company calls them widgets and another
gadgets
We have MAC OSX
StarDock has its own thing called desktopX
Google Desktop sidebar
vista sidebar
Yahoo widgets
Linux has its own gadgets
and then there are some that plug into browsers (like opera) or iGoogle
The only problem with all these is that they are not compatible with each
other..
you cannot use a gadget from Google desktop on windows vista sidebar for
example