Yahoo! Weather Module

My Google Gadgets

As you may already know, I wrote 3 Google Gadgets for a year as follows.

  1. Yahoo! Weather
  2. Ping-o-Matic
  3. Overture Keyword Selector

At that time, all these gadgets are hosted at Google Base and it works for a year without problem. Now, Google Gadgets do not recommend to host gadgets at Google Base anymore because we have Google Code. As a result, hosting gadgets would be easier than ever but existing users must change its URL manually. To make my gadgets to continue working properly, I registered a new project at Google Code. It is named Sugree's Gadgets.

Yahoo! Weather Module

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Yahoo! Weather Module for Google Homepage is my first module for displaying weather information provided by The Weather Channel. Anyway, Google already published Weather Module integrated as overlay on Google Maps. Unfortunately, the weather data are not available for cities outside U.S., e.g., Bangkok. That’s why I have to find new sources. Even though The Weather Channel has data around the world, it is not easy to use formatted data. Yahoo! Weather does as a proxy to provide the data in well-form RSS format so other tools, e.g., Yahoo! Widgets Engine, could query the raw data correctly.