It looks like The New York Times will get on with the times (pun intended) and release quite a bit of new features for its online version. this includes better syndication, customization, social networking, aggregation, API`s and of course Widgets: Widgets: The Times hasn' t shown this tool off before, or even named it yet, so we' ll [...]

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You like funny, witty or over the top captions on photos full of weird, win or FAIL?. You can have photos like that delivered to your blog with the Craptions widget. Craptions are user generated captioned photos from Cracked.com. you can also have your chance at the photo of the day in order to take [...]

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Pixverse, is a Widget and Widget-app developer fro social networks that found their breakthrough at hi5. now hi5 has acquired the open social widget developer thanks to their Social Chat Widget called Pixchat. Pixchat is the evolution of those old chat widgets you used to place in your blog back in 2005. those like Tagboard [...]

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Gotta hand it to Adobe. they truly know how to protect their products. with the advent of PDF readers and writers superior, easier and cheaper to Adobe Reader like Foxit Reader, Adobe knows the only way to protect the PDF business is not only to add better support and more options with the tools [...]

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Two very quick little tips that must be obvious by now for some but maybe not so obvious for most: Add Analytics to your iGoogle Gadgets Google has been furiously adding Analytics to everything and making sure people can use it. iGoogle Gadget developers should not expect no different. you can add Analytics to your iGoogle [...]

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Ok. the idea of personal messages appearing in TV during a show segment is nothing new. that is something MTV has been doing for years now.but that is not the news. the news in here is that Superpoke will sponsor a new reality tv show called “I Love Money” in Vh1 ( you know. that [...]

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While Adobe cheers itself to sleep because they have made flash now more search engine friendly. the solution they proposed is not integral or far reaching as what Microsoft did with Silverlight from the start. Silverlight is searchable by design and it offers a fully integral solution Adobe cannot match. i knew this but [...]

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Up to this moment. all Flash driven websites and Flash widgets out in the web are not search engine friendly. that means that in terms of SEO and SEP. all of that is invisible. but soon it will be very visible Adobe has announced that they have released a SWF file specification to make possible [...]

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Google Media Server Gadget is geared to be used in Google Desktop is a quite interesting proposal in terms of widgets. a sort of Media Extender for Google backed online media and your files running in a computer with Google Desktop. This Google Gadget is Windows only for now and while it support [...]

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The last big update from netvibes what the news of their CEO stepping down and they announcing they were going Open Source. now a month later. they have some news: Now with Google Search Tab I hope there was money exchanging hands here. because if that was not the case. the decision to go with [...]

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The Ads have not yet arrived into iGoogle but pretty much everything else has in a limited release. Now there is gchat, there is Google Social Graph integration, and more advanced Gadget containers for the iGoogle Startpage. the only thing left to add is Ads and OpenSocial support for it. but iGoogle has advanced [...]

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Ah, Poll Widgets. a market that never stops giving. this time is the turn for Poll Authority. Poll Authority is a good solution overall. it got a very pretty, clean, user friendly site. they offer Script based Widgets that can contain Videos from YouTube if you want to and got special delimitation controls in order [...]

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A nice update for the Plurk widget is now out and they have solved all of what i don`t liked in the first release. now you can customize the user details, the size and the colors of the widget so you can integrate it better to your blog. There is also a live preview of [...]

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One of my favorite Silverlight Gadgets for Blogs is the Silverlight Xbox Live Gamecard by Adam Kinney. And if you have been using it. while you may also love it the same way as i do. you also knows that is a little heavy. this update for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 gives you a better [...]

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I wanted to make some new post series in Widgets Lab and a good way to break the ice after having covered much if not all of the big picture in the widget market is to do quick interviews to the CEO´s behind the companies . our theme is of course widget Startups and these [...]

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Promote your auctions with simple animated slideshow widget. This widget comes from classifiedflyerads.com and is a FREE part of their membership package. There are two varieties of widget. One similar to the above widget for sidebars and a horizontal version that can be used for other locations such as headers or posts. This is an iFrame coded widget [...]

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There are many packaged and ready to use Silverlight Video players already out and you can even generate one from Expression Studio quite easily. but that is for basic video players. if you want something with more style, you have to build your own. Or you could use a Open Source Video Player for [...]

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Silverster is a Silverlight powered Twitter Gadget that you can use in your blog and that can replace the minimalistic or overcomplicated options around and offer you a rather slick gadget that looks like a WPF or AIR app. This Widget was developed by Emil Stoychev, and not only can you grab the Gadget code from [...]

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There are a lot of widgets for Twitter, and there are a lot of widgets for Flickr. but how about a Mashlet that combines the two of them into one?. specially designed for people that get bored easily. that is where TwitterFountain gets into the rescue. This Mashlet (mashup widget) can stream photos by tag [...]

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Unless you have recently came back from a Orthodox Amish Community, you should know that there is a mission on mars and that something called the phoenix mars lander recently discovered Ice in mars. but that is not all what The Phoenix Mars Lander does. it knows how to repay the good money it cost [...]

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