Software tools for allowing end users to reprogram interfaces

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Published on 2010-04-14T04:31:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 4:33 UTC
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What would be the examples of commercial software products (specially web-services) which allow the end user to reprogram their user-interface? I mean end users who do not know programming and they are allowed to add more functionality. One way of doing it is allowing XML gadgets like iGoogle does. What are the other approaches and also the technologies enabling them? This would be a futuristic application like collaborative software development for users.

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