Last week we had OzBargain on Twitter. Maybe this whole “Web 2.0” thing is just too “out there”. This week, our mate MiCCAS.net has created a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget for OzBargain — something you can run inside your desktop, and it will grab the latest deals on OzBargain and display on your side bar.

If you haven’t heard already, OzBargain is a wonderful collaborative website in which consumers and customers come together to upload and download offers, from all around Australia.

I’m a member, and in attempting to assist both the community that accesses the website and Scott, the developer of the website, I’ve decided that I would create and release a free Vista gadget for the website.

Thanks mate! I think it would be useful for those who do not want to have the whole RSS feed reader running all the time.

Now, the only problem is — I don’t have Windows Vista, so unfortunately I cannot test it out on my desktop. Gadgets are zip files so at least I can see what it is trying to do. It also happens to run on Windows Live (which again is another service I don’t use). As I am too cheap to buy a computer for myself, I have to wait for my current work laptop to die to get a new Vista laptop.

Honestly, I love to build web services API more than bargain hunting (shocking!!!) and there are already many ways to extract data out from OzBargain which I have not yet bothered to document. Any good API suggestion?

Until then, Hasta la Vista!