Widgets for Web 2.0

Whether you have a personal web page, a blog or a social profile here is a list of most popular web widgets.



Top 10 MUST HAVE Web Widgets for your online page.
(sorted alphabetically)


1. Bookmark This - http://Addthis.com
2. Email Subscription - Widget http://Feedburner.com
3. Picture Badge - http://flickr.com/badge.gne
4. Recent Visitor - http://MyBlogLog.com
5. Search Blog - http://search.msn.com/siteowner
6. Snapshot widget - http://Snap.com
7. Twitter Update - http://Twitter.com
8. Playlist Video Widget - http://Youtube.com
9. Web Poll Widget - http://PollDaddy.com
10. What I am Listening - http://iLike.com

1. Bookmark This



- http://Addthis.com

2. Email Subscription



- http://Feedburner.com

3. Picture Badge



- http://flickr.com/badge.gne

4. Recent Visitor



- http://MyBlogLog.com

5. Search Blog



- http://search.msn.com/siteowner

6. Snapshot widget



- http://Snap.com

7. Twitter Update



- http://Twitter.com

8. Video Playlist Widget



- Login to http://Youtube.com and then goto http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists to select the embed codefor the playlist

9. Web Poll Widget



- http://PollDaddy.com

10. What I am Listening



- http://iLike.com

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Here is a series of videos provided by Popfly.net to create widgets using SilverLight

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A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information , extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games.

A widget is available in a ready-to-use formats and are visually attractive and customizable by the user. It takes the form of pictures, graphs, statistics, summary, or just numbers.

Its a snippet of HTML code which is available from the the website which hosts the widget. you can "copy" that code and "embed" in your web page.

Overview of a Web Widget

The snippet of code which makes a Widget can be a JavaScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.

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