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.
Google+ is hot right now. Very hot it seems. So hot that some of the people responsible for TwitterCounter.com decided to create a cool way to track and display Google+ statistics.
socialstatistics.com is born
When I noticed that Google+ might become popular and that I could build a script to get the following and followers numbers I didn’t think about it too long and started hacking away. On Monday morning the lead developer for TwitterCounter joined me and together we built a first version of a top 100 for Google+.
Socialstatistics.com is a super speedy startup that is both tracking Google+’s hottest (Top) 100 and giving you an easy way to display your Google+ stats on your site with a simple embed.
The widget design is simple, yet elegant. Clean lines with no clutter. Your profile pic is displayed and linked to your socialstatistics.com page. Your ‘Followers’ stat and ‘Friends’ stat are also linked to your socialstatistics.com page. They are kind enough to include a ‘myprofile’ link that actually links to your Google+ profile as well. Also there is a convenient link at the bottom to socialstatistics.com.
Google is always innovating and today is no different with the introduction of the’people Widget’ in Gmail.
This little beauty sits on the right side of your Gmail inbox and gives you a quick snapshot of your communication history with the participants of your current Gmail conversation. this is a big step in Google’s social puzzle. At a glance, you can see who you have invited to the party, see the calendar, add events etc. and just plain see who you have connected with and in what way…this is just some powerful socializing!
Notice the unobtrusive location!
Built in ability to instantly chat with any of your contacts that are online!
If you want to include in your website, the latest Twitter posts on any topic you can imagine…then the news widget from Twitterwidget.net is exactly what you are looking for.
Widget options
This has got to be one of the easiest widgets to set up! Simply decide what topic you want the widget to display Tweets from. Choose a keyword or phrase or even combine both to fine tune your widget.
Color Create the widget color by simply clicking in the color box and picking the color that best matches your websites color scheme. You can add HEX code to get the color exactly as you need to match things up if necessary.
Size Choose the size that fits best in your specific website location. There’s a handy little feature for those of you that don’t know the exact width you need to fill a certain area. (like sidebar) Simply put a tick in the ‘auto width’ option and now the widget will automatically fill the widget of the area that you place it in. You’ll still have to determine the height of the widget on your own though.
Code Simply click in the code box to highlight all of the code…Right click and copy. Then navigate to your website and paste the code into your HTML template.