What are you into?

THE widgetization of the Web/world is an entirely user-driving process.

So, as a widget consumer, what are you into?

Widgipedia and widgets.opera.com both have areas where users voice their wildest widget fantasies...and the fantasies come true. Just browse either gallery and see how many developers mention their products came as a result of a request in the forums (the Lava Lamp, today's Not-for-Work widget, was created this way).

Current hot topics on Widgipedia include text-message widgets that would send free messages to your friends' phones from your computer or site (though I'm sure Verizon or AT&T will pirate the widgets and make the messages cost money...) and widgets that will run on Vista and compete with Mac OS's long lead on the little guys.

Opera's blog has requests for widgets that backs up important files necessary for the Opera browser and ones that work in multiple languages.

Telling, isn't it, that these requests aren't for lava lamps, puzzle games or RSS feeds, but for very practical purposes. These requests are changing the direction the widgetized Web is going. It's up to us, not AOL or Time-Warner or other big providers.

So what's your wildest widget fantasy? Just say the word in the right blog, and maybe it will come true.

Now if only someone could develop a fantasy-granter widget...