Widget: What do you mean by that?

As widgets -- those little chunks of code that allow "page-within-a-page" interaction on a website -- become more popular on the web, I foresee confusion.

The word "widget" has always been used as a placeholder for a type of product in business textbooks and off-the-cuff examples. But now that it's being used as the name of an actual marketing tool, will textbook makers and business school professors stop using the word? A professor saying "Acme Corporation makes widgets" can now have a whole new meaning. Is the professor trying to say Acme is simply manufacturing a generic product that isn't relevant to the conversation at hand, or is Acme an online development firm that specializes in producing interactive bits of code?