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All Facebook Widgets

December 31st, 2009

We gathered all Facebook widgets into one place to make your Facebook widget search easier.

Facebook Official Widgets

Personal Profile Widgets:


Profile Badge: Share your Facebook information on other websites. Three display configurations and 15 information choices.
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Photo Badge: Share your Facebook photos on other websites. Three display configurations. Share up to 8 photos.
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Fan Badge: Show off your favorite Pages on your website or blog. No display configuration. Only shows one page that you are a fan of.
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Website or Business Widgets:


Share: Let visitors to your site share your content on Facebook. Button or link style. With or without a counter. Custom linking options.
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Fan Box: Allow users to become your fan and view your Facebook Page stream. Choose whether to display your fans and your Facebook stream. (Currently in widgetslab sidebar)
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Page Badge: Share your Facebook Page information on other websites. Three display configurations and options to share Name, Status, Profile Picture and Fans.
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Twitter Link: Automatically post your Facebook status updates to Twitter. Status Updates, Photos, Links, Notes and Events can be shared or unshared.
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Developer Widgets:


Publishing to Facebook: Let users publish their actions and content back to Facebook. Custom image options available.
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Comments Box: Allow users to easily comment on your content. No real options.
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Live Stream: Allow Facebook users to connect, share and post updates in real-time. No real options.

http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/
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Google Gadgets for Facebook


Facebook – Now with Full-Screen viewing
Also from iBuno.net http://www.ibuno.net/gadgets/facebook.html

Fully-Featured Facebook Gadget: your essential miniaturized facebook connection. View your news feed, inbox, photos and stay all connected to all your facebook friends directly from your iGoogle page or your web site, all in this convenient gadget. Now with convenient canvas view you can maximize the gadget to gain access to the full facebook site; just click on the maximize button in the upper right hand corner.

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myFacebook Chat!: Simply allows you to add the Facebook Chat window to your web site or blog. Probably works on igoogle pages as well. Warning…this removes chat from your Facebook page while you are viewing it.
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Facebook iPhone Edition Google Gadget

iPhone Edition Google Gadget for your web site.
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Miscellaneous Widgets

VentureBeat Profiles widget for Facebook

This is a company profile that indicates things like Location, number of employees, financials etc. There is even a current news feature that updates. This is a great addition to any post about Facebook.

Grab the basic code.

Go to VentureBeat Profiles for full widget customization options.
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the Social Blog Badge from Mighty Widgets
This widget allows you to create links to many of your social pages. Facebook is not alone here!

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Yahoo! Desktop Widgets (need Yahoo! Widgets install)

Facebook(er) Yahoo! widget

Get Faecbook(er) widget
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Facebook Notifier Yahoo! Widget

Get Facebook Notifier widget
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Mac Dashboard Widgets (requires Mac OS X and Dashboard)

Facebook Alert for Mac OS X Dashboard

Get Facebook Alert for Mac OS X Dashboard
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Facebook Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard

Get Facebook Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard
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Facebook Watch for Mac OS X Dashboard

Get Facebook Watch for Mac OS X Dashboard
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Facebook Widget 0.5 for Mac OS X Dashboard

Get Facebook Widget 0.5 for Mac OS X Dashboard
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Windows Sidebar/Live Gadgets

Facebook Explorer for Windows Gadgets

Get Facebook Explorer for Windows Gadgets
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Facebook3 Windows Live Gadget

Get Facebook3 Windows Live Gadget or here Facebook Sidebar
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Facebook Sidebar Gadget

Fast and easily change your status. See all notifications sent to you.
Hassle free login, simply login to the gadget once and keep yourself logged in all the time!

Simply click the links within the gadget to open up the notification in your browser!

Get Facebook Sidebar Gadget or here Windows Live Facebook sidebar Gadget
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My Facebook Gadget

Get My Facebook Gadget
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Google Desktop Gadgets

Facebook Gadget

Get Facebook Gadget
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Facebook Friends Gadget

Get Facebook Friends Gadget
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Slideshow for Facebook

Shows random photos from your friends on Facebook

Get Slideshow for Facebook
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Conclusion:
As you can see, there are many Facebook Widgets, Gadgets and more. There are even Facebook desktop apps which I considered adding here. I decided to draw the line at Desktop Widgets/Gadgets.
If you know of any that are missing…please comment so I can add them to the list.
Thank You.

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HootSuite’s keyword Twitter column embed

December 17th, 2009

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I’m still not quite sure how to manage all the information that comes down the Twitter pipe…WOW!
HootSuite.com is making that task much, much easier!

You have to watch the video to get a good understanding of how HootSuite works and what it can do for you.

The Column Embed:
The feature we are focused on is the ability to embed into your blog, any “column” that you have created using HootSuite. Simplicity at its finest! All you need to do is create a column with your favorite keyword (up to three) or search criteria and then click on the “embed” button. This brings up the embed settings window which allows you to choose a title, dimensions, primary & background colors, refresh frequency and profanity filter. Once you have made your choices, you are then given the embed code to place in your site. (embed code is Flash)hootsuite_embed_settings

HootSuite is a relatively new service (1 year old approx.) and is winning many awards:

    HootSuite has won Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Award for Best Twitter App
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    Canadian New Media Awards
    Groundswell Awards (selected as a finalist)

Here is what the embedded column looks like in WidgetsLab green.

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Add Facebook Connect widget easily

October 1st, 2009
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Facebook announced on Sept.30 that adding the Facebook Connect widget to your blog just got a whole lot easier.

The popularity of Facebook never ceases to amaze and with that it is important to be able to connect it with every aspect of your social self. Email, Instant Messaging, Blog, Mobile etc… Until now… Blog was just too complicated for the masses of Facebook users.

excerpt from Techcrunch

Facebook Connect launched to the public less than a year ago, and already it’s seen an incredible amount of traction. Unfortunately, for those people with little to no coding experience, implementing Facebook Connect has seemed like more trouble that it was worth.

There has never been a more true statement!
I looked into Facebook Connect when it first arrived. I thought this would be an excellent blog post…but when I discovered how in depth it was just to implement the widget, I moved on.

Implementing Facebook Connect with the new Facebook Connect Wizard can be done in three simple steps.

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1. Enter the name of your site and its URL.
2. Download and then upload a special file to your site’s main directory.
3. Playground — This is where you will find a list of code snippets you can embed on your site. Login buttons, profile photos, publishing items to News Feeds, and rendering photos of a user’s friends. All the great stuff you need for your blog and Facebook connection!

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I almost forgot to mention…Facebook also announced that it has seen fit to make the implementation of Facebook Connect easy on a global front with a translation tool called “Translations for Facebook Connect”

sources:
cnet
TechCrunch
Mashable

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Netvibes Drag & Follow Widget Modules For Twitter, Facebook And Myspace

July 27th, 2009

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Netvibes looks to be finally adding small new features once a month again. Or at least that is what i hope for so we can keep them in the loop longer. The new small feature they introduced is a feature called “Drag & Follow” to the Twitter, Facebook and Myspace Widget Modules. This feature allows you to follow the update from a specific user from those specific stream by dragging the username out of the widget. This creates another widget instantly focused on the updates of that user.

But if you want to read it from Netvibes own words, this is how they explain it:

With the rapid growth of real-time content and activity feeds from sources like Facebook and Twitter, many people are struggling to keep track of multiple friends and interests that change day-to-day. Today, we launched a novel solution and industry first: drag-and-follow widgets. New Facebook, MySpace and Twitter widgets now enable users to instantly create new widgets to follow new interests simply by dragging and dropping any feed item to their personalized page.

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via Netvibes  Blog

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Facebook Fan Box : Blog Embeddable Fan Page Widget

July 15th, 2009

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Because the race to grow and grow of Facebook cannot sustain of the site itself anymore, now you can get proper Facebook widgets. but don’t get too excited because it don’t mean great widgets of your personal account or great widgets of your content in Facebook to share in your blog.

It is all about Fan Pages converting into Widgets as Fan Boxes for blogs as Facebook states in the general details of the widget:

As a Facebook Page owner, you can implement the Fan Box widget on your own website to gain more fans and share your Facebook updates. Implementing requires pasting just 4 lines of code.

The widget currently has 3 components: “Button”, “Stream” (optional), and “Fans List” (optional). The widget can fit in a space as small as 200 x 64 (just the “button”) or offer a richer experience including recent posts and other fans at a full 600 x 544 pixels (width adjustable from 200 – 600 pixels).

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So this means that it is for the brands, personalities and celebrities in Facebook to better market and target connect with you. This way if you stumble with Fan Box in the website of your favorite band, celebrity or brand and you are not already following them in Facebook. you can add yourself as a fan directly in the Fan Box Widget thanks to Facebook Connect. So next time you are in Facebook, the updates from that fan page will start reaching you.

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All around a sound idea but i think that the widgets could be more flexible when it comes to customization because right now they look out of place most of the time like the photo examples above clearly show. Now if they started making widgets regular users could use to share what is in facebook beyond it. That would be truly useful.

via Facebook Blog & TC

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