They enable you to create your own personal dashboard. In fact, this is how I track my various projects. To enable this, new Google Code project hosting gadgets are now available for each project on Google Code. They can be discovered under the feeds link in the project homepage.

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/feeds
http://code.google.com/p/wikia/feeds

Let us know what you think! We'd love to hear your ideas on how to make the Gadgets integration on Google Code even better!

As always, we look forward to your feedback.