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

Add your favorite here ...

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

Video: PopFly 30 Second





Video: PopFly 3 Minute





Video: Popfly in 15 Minutes

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 JavScript code, Adobe Flash plugin, code for embedding Windows Media player or even SilverLight plugin, and is hosted in the website which provides the Widget.

A series of videos by RobinGood

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Part 5.

Web 2.0 is all about the following and more...

1. User Centric and User Oriented
2. Web Services, Web API's
3. Widgets, Gadgets, Mashup's
4. Blogs, Feeds, Wiki's, Tagging, Podcasting
5. Social profile
6. Social bookmarking
7. Client rich technologies like CSS, HTML, DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, XHTML, REST, SOAP


Here is the Web 2.0 Cloud image and a basic Video which somehow describes it in a visual way.



What is Web 2.0 Video

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