Facebook is going to be huge!
According to the Revver blog…you can put Revver video on your Facebook profile.
Look to the widget section and locate Widgetbox. Put Widgetbox on your profile and then add Revver video. You will need a video ID number to display the video you want. We are told that you can adjust the size as well.
ORLANDO, Fla., May 30 /PRNewswire/ — PayPerPost
(http://www.payperpost.com), the leading marketplace for advertisers to
engage bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has
released PayPerPost Direct, a powerful new point-of-sale (POS) transaction
widget. The widget allows all bloggers to conduct business directly with
advertisers who are interested in having sponsored content created on a
specific blog. The widget expands upon PayPerPost’s existing model that
allows Bloggers to write about an advertisers product, service or website
in exchange for a fee.
Read the rest on prnewswire.com
Everyone’s raving about Facebook. “The next big thing”…in social community sites. I thought a little grouping of info wouldn’t hurt.
Did you know?
Widget Builders Find Dream Niche in Facebook
Facebook has opened it’s doors to widget developers of all kinds. For starters…Amazon widgets that allow you to put book reviews and purchase links on your profile. Other key players include CollegeHumor and uPlayMe…
There’s Twitter in my Facebook
Twitter was invited to be an early participant in Facebook’s new platform. Facebook+Twitter download
Facebook’s big plans
Anne Collier’s collection of Facebook comentary.
Betting on Facebook
An excellent story on RedHerring talking about how web application and widget developers are already seeing fantastic adoption numbers. Indicating a symbiotic relationship.
Jangl and Facebook
Free calls between registered Facebook users using the new Jangl widget
Mashable’s list of Facebook apps.
A huge list of 30 plus application have offerings on Facebook
How to leverage the new Facebook platform
Cameron Olthuis has written a common sense approach to creating viral apps for the new Facebook platform. (very interesting read!)
wholinked.com is the featured widget for the next two weeks.
(located in upper right)
wholinked is a simple, easy to setup, JavaScript widget that displays a set number of links to your blog or site. Telling you and your readers, “Who Linked” to your page.
A definite confidence builder for someone considering linking to your blog!
I encourage you to give it a try.
Then come back and post comments telling us what you think.
I had to give the upper portion of this post over to the “RateItAll” widget, from RateItAll.com
This has to be one of the coolest looking widgets I have ever laid eyes on. The colors seem to go well with whatever blog scheme I could imagine. There is a shine to it…literally! All of the animations work seamlessly. Even the most picky blogger would have to admit to the beauty of this widget.
Ok…so it looks cool. What does it do?
RateItAll allows you to do just that…rate everything. From your new Cadillac to your 5 year old dishwasher. (not your kids…but I suppose you could rate them as well) Everything is fair game for a rating. These ratings can be shared to create a community and allow others to make informed decisions based on others reviews.
With the RateItAll widget, visitors to your blog can easily rate your blog and write a review of your blog right from the widget.
This is fantastic! The readers don’t need to leave to make use of the widget. I know the creator of this widget insisted that people stay on site as much as possible.
How do I get it?
RateItAll widget is still in closed beta. If you read WidgetBlog-sexywidget you will be the first to know of the official release. I would also suggest that you subscribe to the sexywidget RSS feed 
Where can I use it?
This is a Flash widget. This means that it should work wherever you want to post it. (provided you can edit the template or add widgets) It comes in two widths. 170 px and 210 px both are blog sidebar friendly. (my sidebar is 300 px) There are four colors to choose from…including Black, Green, Blue and Red.
I would like to see more customization options. But this would eliminate the Web2.0 shine and awesome rounded edges. So for now we will have to enjoy it the way it is.
Sorry LC for the delay in posting this review…I have no excuse.
SimplyHired.com allows you to put a job search widget on your blog. Take this one step further…you have your own help wanted ads on your blog. These ads are completely customizable . You get to choose the price you charge for an ad posting…the duration of the ad…etc.
My own classifieds?
That is what I said, isn’t it?
Jobamatic.com has this to say…
Basic text link advertising is a great first step in monetizing your site. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should.
Your next step should be adding job listings via Job-a-matic. While your readers will likely tolerate advertising, they’ll view targeted job listings as a valuable addition to your site. And revenue from job listings can quickly outpace that from standard CPC advertising programs as you build your base of listings customers. Employers are eager to promote their job listings to qualified candidates. And savvy candidates always keep an ear to the ground for interesting opportunities. By adding job listings to your site with Job-a-matic, you provide your readers with a useful service and make good money along the way.
What can I customize?
Besides all of the job listing criteria, you can edit the title of the widget to reflect what your job board is all about. There are custom color options that allow you to choose predetermined color combinations or create your own.
There is an option for completely custom HTML headers and footers for this widget.
Custom sizing is, unfortunately missing on this widget. Designers sometimes believe that everyone has the same layout to their blogs and that custom sizes are pointless extra work that is meaningless. (dumb)
Jobamatic.com
oil-price.net serves up three great widgets that keep us all posted as to the cost of oil and the national average cost of a gallon of fuel. I’m doing the rideshare thing to cut down on fuel use.
Ethanol?
No! But both Unleaded and Diesel are covered in the fuel price widgets. People need to know these things along with which gas stations to boycott in order to start a price war. (latest email scam) I think the emails that circulate about this should tell everyone to rideshare. This would be the most effective way to drop the price of fuel. The price would plummet if we cut our consumption by 1/3rd.
Where’s my Hydrogen?
Sorry. With only one or two of these Hydrogen stations in existence…a price widget would be pointless.
The better of the three
I would lean towards the Crude oil graph widget. I like this one because it shows 1 month through 5 years of data in an easy to understand graphical interface.
JavaScript
These widgets are JavaScript based in order to receive updates regularly and maintain integrity. (whatever) They are cool and they work…and that is what counts! If your blog has a political flavor to it…this is one group of widgets that you should definitely consider implementing.
oil-price.net
YackPack.com offers four audio communications widgets that work on FaceBook and blogs as well.
These are flash based widgets. They should work on that other social site’s profile pages.
Today I happened to see a favorite widget being utilized on my local ABC news site. (nearly at bottom)The Slide.com vertical slide show widget is being used to show images from a recent storm. The photos are actually hosted on Flickr and then run through the Slide.com’s widget.
Excellent!
I think this is a definite indication of the mass adoption of widgets. Some will always be more popular than others.
Video and Photo widgets will rule the roost for a long while.
Congratulations…Slide.com
iBegin.com is a site dedicated to creating a personally useful internet. One that surrounds us, not in a technological sense but more in a local user created sense.
This would be a place that you and I can add to and refine in order to enhance the areas in which we live. Restaurant reviews, good deals, exceptional service…just about anything that you think is worth sharing with the residents in your community.
iBegin has kicked things off with a weather widget that you can place on your blog.
We all know that talking about the weather is a good way to break the ice. With a widget, iBegin gets the word out about their service and people start to show up and create their communities. Awesome thinking!
Shut up already!…give us the widget.
The first thing I noticed about the iBegin weather widget is it’s simple attractiveness. The widget has very clean lines and is easy to read. You don’t have to spend any amount of time figuring out what you are looking at. There are icons depicting the current conditions and future forecasts and you can easily tell the high and low temps for each day.
Who cares what the weather is like over there?
This problem is solved with the simple city, state or zip code search that is located at the bottom of the widget. Now your visitors have one less thing to complain about…they can search weather for their own locale and be satisfied with the results.
Unfortunately the search results are not loaded into the widget. When you search with this widget you are redirected to the iBegin weather page. This isn’t such a bad thing…that page is just as easy to use and it links you to a wealth of information about your community. I’ve found things I didn’t know! I don’t believe your readers will be put out by the redirect…in fact I think they will appreciate it.
Dude…get back on track!
click above to get yoursThis widget is completely customizable! (finally someone that has heard my appeals.)
you can change…
Function
select whether or not the city at the top is a link to the iBegin weather page or not.
switch between two sizes for the current conditions icon.
toggle current conditions and forecasts.
show or hide the search.
Appearance
background color and width (two of the important ones)
border…both thickness and color (almost unheard of)
font…size and style (font choices in a widget…someone pinch me)
you can also toggle icons on and off.
Missing options
Social profile compatibility. (at least the ones that block JavaScript)
Branding (i would love to see my logo in this widget)…or
Custom title (Widgets Lab’s Weather..or..Sticky’s Weather)
Grill guarantee (a guarantee that the weather will cooperate with outdoor activities)
weather.ibegin.com/
CBS Widgetizes
CBS has partnered with a host of widget services hoping to spread their services far and wide.
get details at the.next.net
The new Facebook Platform utilizes Widgetbox.com services.
Giving 24 million Facebook users easy access to thousands of widgets. This is huge for Facebook!
get details at WidgetboxBlog
read more at Red Herring
Media is craving widgets to spread content.
Gannett, owners of USA Today and many other news papers has launched a weather widget.
get details here Red Herring
WidSets reaches 1 million users.
WidSets puts widgets on your mobile phone.
read more here intoMobile.com
SpringWidgets launches Fantastic Four movie widget
Fantastic Four 2 looks to be far better than the original and SpringWidgets has an awesome widget about the movie
get the details here Snipperoo blog
MyBlogLog adds tagging feature
They also have included an extensive tutorial on how to effectively use tags.
the whole story at MyBlogLogBlog
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