IBM have finally released the portlet for consuming Google Gadgets and services within Websphere that I mentioned way back at Lotusphere.
IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets is a JSR 168 portlet that allows enterprise portal users to integrate Google Gadgets for web pages with their portal pages. Google Gadgets for web pages are remotely accessible services that provide access to online content and applications designed to be aggregated into the context of a web page. These include language translators, maps, YouTube videos, and Wikipedia.
Using IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets with appropriate access rights, users can search and select a Google Gadget from the available set of thousands of Google Gadgets for their portal pages and modify the settings of the selected gadget as per their preferences. Additionally, users can specify the number of gadgets to be displayed per page while selecting a gadget.
Reasons we may want to use it in the near future:
User-owned integration of stuff like: Facebook; MySpace; Digg; Del.icio.us etc.
Might save reading the Facebook API documentation for a while.
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Paul lives, rides and works in Cardiff, South Wales. His work seems to largely entail fixing things and keeping wheels on. Officially, he is actively engaged and interested in Enterprise Architecture these days, but has a secret past that involved standing around on glaciers collecting meltwater samples, and walking through endless fields of wheat taking radiance measurements. 
Installed, so all ready to play with. Looks pretty neat and simple so far.
Well I only managed to break it once – so that’s definitely a good thing – and I now have a Google spreadsheet and docs widget installed