Widgets for Your Website… It’s Just Like Christmas!
Partly as a follow up to Steve’s recent post on Snap, and partly because ’tis the season for receiving as well as giving (;-), I recommend checking out Widgetbox. It’s the best round-up on the web of all the neat little widgets, like Snap, available for use in your website. Interestingly, Snap doesn’t seem to be listed there yet.
A sample of some of the most impressive goodies to be found at Widgetbox includes:
- Grazr — A free publishing tool for feeds. Quickly and easily display RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML files on any Web page so they can be viewed by any visitor to the site.
- Meebo Me! — A chat client that you can embed directly in your page.
- Mapsack map — Allows you to embed an interactive google map on your blog.
Oh, and for those hoping Santa will bring them a cute furry companion this year, there’s always the CuteOverload Cutetracker if the big guy doesn’t deliver.
Before I forget to mention them yet again, Google Gadgets are also pretty swell looking. Though I’ve never actually played with them, I love the idea of easily inserted HTML code snippets that quickly add pizzazz and functionality to any page. It puts the geeky tools in the hands of those that wouldn’t dare delve into JavaScript, much less Ajax.
The Google Gadgets are pretty cool.
Cool.I will use them on my website.
Wow, widgetbox is awesome! Thanks for the cool tip! Are you using widgetbox on your blog?
-Sansa