Some Group Thinking (the good kind) on widgets and LMSs

My little post about the "Year of the Widget" and its possible impact on LMSs caught the attention of both Lee Kraus and Tony Karrer who have both added some good points. I love Lee's idea that the new LMS could end up looking like Google Analytics.

Tony adds that the new LMSs may: "be much more like a combination of Communication, Search Support and Web Analytics (for tracking), and less like the current self-contained entities that are today's LMS. It won't get in your way when you want to get to information, but may come up along the side to show you other resources. It will track your access of content of various forms without login, provide suggestions for additional content, suggest learning paths based on what you are doing. It's going to be on-the-side and below your activities, not on-top."

This all seems to mean that typically the new LMS will be hosted, will be sold a la carte as a service, will be very "Web 2.0" in terms of its interactivity and what else.......?