Posts Tagged ‘News’

Oil Spill counter widget

May 9th, 2010

Seriously?

It seems as though someone (WKRG News) has created a widget to count the gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.


WKRG.com News

This little gem appears to have been created by WKRG News (Alabama Mobile News) and can be seen on their site here.
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/oil-boom-backup-hay/883696/May-05-2010_10-30-am/

I found this while searching out the Hay-Oil solution. Seems Hay (horse/cattle feed) is a decent way to remove oil from water.

Seems there’s another Oil Spill Widget from PBS.org
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/05/how-much-oil-has-spilled-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.html

WInfo claims to take the work out of blogging

April 3rd, 2010


The WInfo Website Widget from getwinfo.com appears designed to add rich, relevant content to your already existing blog/website. YouTube videos, news articles, images, gossip and even Tweets from Twitter are delivered to the widget based upon the content of your website.

This sounds almost too good to be true….so we’ll give it a try and see what comes up.

» Read more: WInfo claims to take the work out of blogging

Soccer widgets from IMScouting.com

January 18th, 2010

For those of you not familiar with football in Europe…Football=Soccer in the U.S.

IMScouting is a global scouting company for football professionals combining a revolutionary database that provides reliable online “e-Scouting” alongside a scouting consultancy service that can supply genuine global grassroots insights into the world of professional football.

IMScouting.com has released some great widgets that display match highlights, injury reports, transfer (player trading) information, global football news and a scouting search box.

These widgets are FREE to use, require no registration and have full customization options including size color and more. They use JavaScript for code.

Check out the IMScouting widgets.

Viral Content Widget from BuzzFeed

January 8th, 2010


BuzzFeed.com tracks everything thats currently HOT on the Internet and everything that’s about to become HOT!

They have a customizable JavaScript widget (seen below) that can be configured to show a number of the latest topics. Custom colors and sizes with image size choices as well.
WordPress Plugin and PHP/PERL scripts are also available.

There’s even a static image badge if you want to promote BuzzFeed. (hmmm…doesn’t static mean non-changing? This image changes.)

BuzzFeed Tracks the Web’s Obsessions in Real Time.

We feature the kind of things you’d want to pass along to your friends: an outrageous video that’s about to go viral, an obscure subculture breaking into the mainstream, a juicy bit of gossip that everyone at the office will be talking about tomorrow, or an ordinary guy having his glorious 15-minutes of fame. And when you read BuzzFeed, you’ll always know the movies, music, and products that are on the rise and worth your time.

…and BuzzFeed wouldn’t forget all of those that don’t have websites to paste widgets into. So they have created a mountain of options for those of us that simply don’t want the hassle of maintaining a website.

# Apple Dashboard
# Yahoo Desktop
# NetVibes
# iGoogle
# PageFlakes

Whats curiously missing is a BuzzFeed app for the iPhone. You can always point your mobile browser to http://m.buzzfeed.com/ but I’, sure its just not as good as an actual BuzzFeed app could be.

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