| You can now interact with your friends by having a | | | | particularly well on mobile world, where space on |
| bluetooth mobile phone and some mobile widgets | | | | screen is limited, and where it is not easy to switch |
| installed. Most companies in this domain provide all that | | | | between applications. A widget engine is so hassle |
| you need in order to find people and chat with your | | | | free that there is no need for you to click from site to |
| friends, business partners etc. Who would not want to | | | | site, refresh, or browse for what you want - the |
| stay on top of things all the time and know what their | | | | information is updated to your cell phone automatically. |
| friends are up to? It would be great to communicate | | | | Each bluetooth chat implies finding out the names of |
| with them and stay in touch just as if they were right | | | | the people with whom you chat. This is how it is done: |
| next to you. With mobile widgets you can do all that - | | | | each bluetooth cell phone has a name, which is visible |
| and more: you can get traffic alerts, news, blogs, | | | | by other devices. Many people change the default |
| gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads | | | | name (usually the cell phone brand or model) into a |
| of other stuff that you would normally get through a | | | | friendlier one. If you play with the scan feature, you will |
| web service, without having to wade through hundreds | | | | meet lots of new people and for some of them you |
| of websites. Bluetooth chat is also possible between | | | | will already know their names. Which means that |
| two or more people that have a mobile phone which | | | | these mobile widgets are quite some ice breakers! |
| supports bluetooth and mobile widgets. | | | | The second important thing about a mobile widget is |
| Bluetooth chat is a direct text chat between two or | | | | that it can be combined with other widgets. These |
| more users, where every one of them utilizes a | | | | applications were previously called plug-ins, |
| bluetooth device and names it (optional). This way of | | | | components, extensions, or gadgets, but the real |
| communicating is generally used in a public and | | | | innovation is that now it is up to the users: they can |
| populated space like a pub, a street, a plaza and so on. | | | | combine these mobile widgets to create their own |
| To initiate this chat, one goes to the connectivity menu | | | | unique application. For example, the user can choose |
| on his/her device and turns on the bluetooth port. Next, | | | | to have CNN News, Paris weather etcetera. Some |
| one should try to discover new bluetooth devices in | | | | companies come up with technologies that allow |
| order to find and add some bluetooth co-chatters. | | | | complex widgets for communities; they also facilitate |
| Now that the list is made, one can create a note and | | | | user created applications - you can create an |
| send it via bluetooth to the other devices/users. Even if | | | | application for your business or one for your blog. |
| you do not have a mobile widget on your phone, | | | | You can find companies on the Internet which offer |
| people who have this feature on theirs can still detect | | | | you a series of advantages, like reading your favorite |
| you; they can declare your cell phone as a friend and | | | | blogs on your mobile phone, checking your horoscope |
| receive notifications each time you are around or even | | | | daily, meeting new people, finding the latest sport |
| invite you to use the same company as they do. | | | | results, being alerted when a friend is near you etc. |
| Because friend alerts are based on the bluetooth | | | | The most important feature is that by having a mobile |
| feature of your friend's cell phone, they will work | | | | software provider, you can talk via bluetooth with all |
| anytime your friend's bluetooth is switched on. Mobile | | | | the people that surround you. Thanks to this bluetooth |
| widgets only help you communicate easier and offer | | | | chat technology and the mobile widgets, you can |
| you many new opportunities. | | | | declare as a friend a person who does not have both |
| Generally speaking, a widget is a small application, a | | | | features yet. Those services are very affordable, |
| little bit of code, that does one simple thing but does it | | | | taking into consideration that they are totally free; you |
| well. In order to be able to run a widget, you need a | | | | can use them as much as you want, create as much |
| "Widget Engine", which is the framework needed to | | | | as you want, and share with others to the point that |
| run these micro applications. This approach fits | | | | you can't share anymore. |