Jeff Nolan, VP of NewsGator's Media & Consumer Products will be representing NewsGator at today's "Widget Wednesday" hosted by SocialText.  The event is billed as a "distributed hackathon" for widgets and mashups. In addition to NewsGator, Box.net, Denodo, Meebo, Six Apart, Slideshare and others will participate in the hackathon; the goal is the development of OpenSocial standard-based widgets and mashups on the Socialtext platform.  More details are available here.