My first start.com gadget
Well I have a gadget mostly working... It's on a public server but it's not really useful to anyone but me, since it uses an XML interface to my Linky web service that I use to manage my own personal bookmarks. Anyone can use Linky, but the start.com gadget currently has my name hard-coded into it. And I still have some issues to solve.
But the idea that I can add my own custom content to a start page that's provided by Microsoft is something I can't get anywhere else.
(My gadget's manifest is here, if you're curious - it's mostly a quick and dirty edit of the Rumor City sample, but it works).