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reddit.com widget works great

Derek Anderson — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:00:55 +0000

The reddit.com widget can be used to display any sub reddit that exists. If you want videos or askreddit or even NSFW… they all work and display how you want them to. Its a simple javascript that all you need to do is change the subreddit to what you want.

Other widget options include:\

You can find the widget link at the bottom of any reddit.com page and will automatically be assoicated for that subreddit. Easy!

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/widget/

http://www.reddit.com/r/all/widget/

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/widget/

etc…

News from Widget World

Derek Anderson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:12:12 +0000

Widgets are everywhere
So many new services across the Internet are offering widgets it requires a dutiful eye to keep up with them all. From online telephone directories like Anywho.com to health widgets for senior citizens, if you’re a widget junkie here is a cross-section of offerings from the GUI universe…

On the Music Front
Spotify, the latest craze in music streaming, now offers itself as widget that you can display on your website or blog. All you have to do is embed a simple piece of HTML code and soon all your readers can check out any and all of your playlists. If you’re into ‘scrobbling’, or Last.fm, you can highlight your latest exploits there with a widget that keeps tabs on your last 5 tracks.

The Silver Screen, Streamed
Despite its catastrophic troubles making Qwikster fly, Netflix boasts two unique widgets for the tech-savvy movie buff to play with. There’s the Spotlight widget, which allows you to embed “add-able” photos of a certain movie or show. Let’s say you adore the movie Air Bud 2. With the spotlight widget you could showcase a screenshot of the Golden Receiver on your Facebook page and allow your friends to add the movie to their Netflix queue just by clicking on it.
The other Netflix widget is called the Bubble widget, which allows you to garnish the Netflix links on your page with the pop-up synopsis information about a certain movie or show, just like on the site itself.

Don’t Forget About Social Media
Facebook has widgets for just about every facet of their site, from the Like button to profile badges and registration options. Similarly, Twitter has rolled out a series of widgets that let you showcase your latest Tweets and allow others to ‘follow’ you and/or Tweet your blog. Almost any social media tool worth its salt integrates itself across the web using widgets.

Smartphone Mania
The Android Ice Cream Sandwich widgets were so popular they were leaked before an official release, allowing users an early look at the augmented Gmail and Calendar updates, with the more robust notification bars.

Breaking News
Reuters, CBS, Fox, and almost any news site you can imagine offer widgets that give bloggers the ability to scroll breaking news stories on their blogs or websites. The news agency Reuters offers breaking news, top news pictures, and market information all in three separate widgets. An innovative 2010 widget from The Huffington Post allowed users to share fund-raising information related to political candidates.
The popularity of widgets isn’t going away. In fact, some iPhone users have figured out ways to ‘jailbreak’ their phone and import widgets onto their dashboard. In the near future, it will be hard to imagine any online service not having a widget counterpart.

Google Plus Widget for websites

Derek Anderson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:44 +0000

The Google Plus Widget from widgetsplus.com is a highly customizable, easy to use widget that acts as a conduit to your Google+ and Google profile.

Just about every possible option is available. You have complete control over all color options, border options etc.

Check out widgetplus.com today

gglpls widget displays your Google+ posts on your website

Derek Anderson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:59:21 +0000

There is no doubt that Google+ is hot right now and with all that popularity comes added features created by the community at large.

gglpls.com is a Google+ community directory where you can list yourself and find others with similar interests. You can even search users by their country of origin. (I believe this information is added by the person when they list themselves on this site.)

gglpls.com has created a simple to use, embeddable widget that will display all of your Google+ posts, your profile image and whatever you have in your Google Profile (under name box thingy). The widget also provides links to each post for convenience.

The widget is completely customizable with size options and HEX color options for ‘shell’, ‘post background’ and ‘scroll bar’.

Once you have your widget set up the way you want, simply copy the widget code and paste it into your website template code.

gglpls.com/widget

Google+ add me widget

Derek Anderson — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:38:54 +0000

widgetsplus has released a widget that allows your readers to easily add you to their Google+ Circle of choice.

The setup for this widget allows you to completely choose your colors…right down to the HEX numbers if you like. I love this level of customization.
I do hope the dev will somehow allow the use of background images as well.

http://widgetsplus.com/