Dashboard-like info with Browser tabs, Windows 7 Taskbar tabs

Browser tabs & Windows 7 Taskbar tabs are turning self-aware. 

This is how my browser looked the other day:

I had the summary of all that was happening within those browser tabs because of the ubiquitous AJAX code running inside all those webpages which was dynamically updating the page title.

In Windows 7, a Taskbar tab representing a browser can show the download progress of a file being fetched within that browser visually as a green flowing gel.

Hotmail  has added email notifications to its pinned site that displays the number of new messages directly in the taskbar.