manipulated, and displayed with ease. The visual wiring editor connects software parts together and configures them into a finished widget that can run either in the webtop or on external web pages.

The software parts themselves can be edited by software developers knowing Javascript and XML with the part IDE. Qrowd is a fully extensible system.

The webtop is a highly customizable dashboard to the Internet. Users can aggregate all their frequently accessed web content into a single place. Native widgets feature integrated alerts. Third party widgets such as Google Gadgets can be added to the webtop via wrapper widgets. Content from almost any web page can also be clipped with a web page clipping widget.

By overlaying a widget platform with a webtop, Qrowd enables users to take data of interest from around the web, manipulate it, and then choose how to best visualize it.