Festival of fanciful widget-shaped things
Not just widget-shaped; they’re better when they’re widget-sized, too, though that would be more limiting.
Making widgets from feeds
Lawrence Coburn discusses three ways to make widgets from RSS feeds.
I’m beta testing Widgetbox’s new premium features for Blidgets, their feeds-to-widget tool.
Grazr is a pretty nice tool for sharing and displaying feeds, too, and has the advantage of accepting OPML files.
Let them peek over your shoulder
Like this collection of search terms on talking and driving.
Do you get the sense that the mob in general thinks it's already socially unacceptable to talk on the phone or text while driving? I think so. It surprised me a little.
Or, how about this as a countup to replace the Obama countdown?
It will make more sense come Jan. 20 when the counter moves into positive territory. I’ll see how it does on Clearspring, and then we’ll see.
Smaller:
How it looks on a blog:
How it looks on an iGoogle start page:
Open Web Awards voting widget: one vote, one choice
The widget is configurable to pair down either categories or companies; it’s shown here circumscribed to a particular category, embeddable widgets, but allows voting for any of the three finalists.
Here’s how the finalists in the embeddable widget category are campaigning:
- Clearspring and Qoof in blog posts, and
- Sprout with a dedicated domain featuring the widget and a video.
Voting deadline is Sunday.