Web widgets and gadgets are portable chunks of the Web that can be easily embedded into a webpage and adds some content to that page that is not static. This portable chunk of code can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. Widgets are derived from the idea of code reuse. You can use them to get or promote news, information, entertainment, decoration, or whatever else you can think of for your blog, profile page, personal home page, or web site.Visit our FAQ page for more information about usage. Below are some examples of places where you can use them.
Gadgets and Widgets for iGoogle or Personal Web Pages or Blogs.
For customized pages like iGoogle or personal web pages, web gadgets and widgets can deliver to you exactly what you want, when you want it. No more pop-ups, pop-unders, and annoying flash banner ads that can considerably slow down or interrupt your search experience. Use these powerful and useful gadgets to search directly for what you want, when you want without searching through numerous products and services pages. Or, just entertain yourself and your site visitors with a widget that reveals the latest celebrity gossip or one that allows you to play games like an addictive sudoku puzzle, a crossword puzzle or classic video games like Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong. You can also use gadgets like the Flickr Slideshow to give your visitors an experience of your last trip out, or one that gives you latest updates on the weather in your area or to a place you plan on visiting. All of these gadgets and widgets are useful, easy to get and most of all fun to use and to share.
Gadgets and Widgets for Professional Business Sites or Blog Producers.
For business sites or blog owners, use widgets to help keep your visitors engaged. People love using all sorts of web widgets and gadgets. Web gadgets can help keep your visitors interested with your content longer and can also help keep your visitors coming back for more interesting and fun interaction. Grab the Yahoo Finance widget to show up to date stock prices and financial information or a CNN one for the latest national and world news. You can also post various retail widgets which can be a compliment to what you are selling or blogging about or post others that promote various lifestyle interests like travel, the latest techno inventions, and parenthood. Online widgets allow your visitors to directly search for and interact with various products, services, news and commentary without leaving your content and searching for it elsewhere.
Gadgets and Widgets for Social Community Pages on Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.
Have a Facebook page or involved in some other online community? Post these widgets as applications directly onto your page to not only express your unique self and interests to the community, but to also share your experience among your friends, family and colleagues. Want to let your friends know about a pair of shoes that are on sale that week? Looking for a great deal on travel for a trip you are interested in taking with some friends? These gadgets will allow everyone to constantly check prices and in-stock items and keep everyone in the know. Promote your self interests with widgets that deal with political commentary, great YouTube clips, entertaining games, humorous cartoons and classic quotes by the world’s most famous characters. You’ll find that these gadgets and widgets can spur great conversations among your peers and family about a recent customer experience, limited time deals, political developments or the newest song you want everyone to hear.