Friday, 4 January 2008

What a wonderful widget world

My inestimable and resourceful colleague Michael Targett has put together a collection of useful widget links and has invited me to publish it, for which I thank him.

Recommended widgets

http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/top-rated
http://mashable.com/2007/09/06/widgets-2/

News widgets

http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/live?category=4
http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/?q=news

Images widgets

http://bumped.org/WebApps/category/image-widgets/
http://flickrtools.blinklist.com/tag/flickr%20widgets/

Video widgets

http://newteevee.com/2007/10/16/top-five-video-widgets-to-fidget-with/

Apple widgets
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/the-9-best-widgets/

Community widgets

http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/363435/top-ten-facebook-widgets.html
http://www.boonex.com/products/ray/
http://www.rateitall.com/t-22486-community-widgets.aspx

Blog widgets

http://widgets-gadgets.com/2007/08/top-10-web-widgets-for-your-blog.html
http://technorati.com/widgets/blogwidgets

RSS widgets
http://widgets.yahoo.com/search/?q=RSS

Map widgets

http://www.visitwidget.com/feature.htm (good one for community build by nation)
http://bumped.org/WebApps/category/map-widgets/

Creating your own widget

http://www.yourminis.com/
http://grazr.com/config.html


Further widget reading

Widget marketplaces (see WidgetBox , LabPixies and Widgipedia)
Widget blogs (see WidgetsLab and Widgetoko).
Widget conference (whole conference)

5 comments:

Piersj said...

another link for you;

Ivan Pope keeps an excellent directory of widgets up to date here at Snipperoo

Editor said...

WidgetsLab thanks you for the recognition!
I thank you for including us in your attempt to help your organization into the new world.

You deserve a promotion!

-D

Andrew Orange said...

Thanks Derek. I'll tell my bosses you said so. :-)

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Spuds McKenzie said...

Another link for you: http://en.bloglue.jp/
Focus is on widgets to and from Japan.w