We just pushed out a new version of Mash Maker that has lots of new features. I’ll be addressing each of these in a separate blog post.

One of the first things you will probably notice when you install the new version is that the number of available widgets has significantly increased. This is because Mash Maker now has support for Google Gadgets. You can now add any Google Gadget to a web page, just as if it was a Mash Maker widget.

Obviously, there are a lot of things that Google Gadgets can’t do that full-blown Mash Maker widgets can - add icons to the page, understand the data on the page, send data to other widgets, etc. However there are a lot of Google Gadgets that are very useful and so we think that this is a great feature.

There will be some docs going up soon giving more info on using Google Gadgets with Mash Maker.