1. Yahoo! Widgets

Yahoo! Widgets is a free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. The software was previously called Konfabulator.Yahoo Widget Engine is incredibly cool, light-weight, easy to use and totally free tool from Yahoo which can turn your desktop into a wonderland for your mouse cursor. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather. The latest Yahoo Widgets is version 4.5 allows Widget creators to build more awesomeness into their Widgets, including video right on your desktop.

2. Kludgets

Kludgets is a free, open-source widget engine that allows you to put Mac dashboard widgets on your Windows desktop. Some OS X widgets worked just fine with Kludgets—download the ZIP file, right-click Kludgets’ system tray icon, and open the package to get started. Others, especially those that relied on Mac system information or complex web information, were non-starters. Kludgets can auto-run your widgets at start-up, and you can manually hide and show them, but there’s no Mac-style keyboard shortcut to bring up a “shade” with all your widgets—not yet, anyways.

3. Clearspring

Clearspring enables people to easily share content with trusted friends and social groups across popular sites like Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Twitter and Digg. Shared content includes Web pages, videos, movie trailers, news, sports updates, trivia quizzes, games and music.

Clearpring’s ConnectedAds service work based off of the Clearspring widget platform, which allows companies and advertisers to create widgets and distribute them across social platforms like MySpace, Facebook, and blogs. The key and the beauty to the ConnectedAds program is its social tracking and analytics.

4. Google Web Elements

Google Web Elements allow users to quickly integrate some of Google’s most popular products, including Calendar, Search, and Maps, directly into their sites with a minimal amount of effort. Much of the same functionality has previously been available through Google APIs

Select a widget you want to include and set one or two options like size, type of content for news etc and you will get the code which you can embed in your web pages. For example see the Google news widget i have included in this post. News widget currently available in only two sizes, 300×250 and 728×90, but you can change the width and height in the code

5. TicTacTi

Casual games may see a vast amount of traffic, but monetizing them can be more than a little tricky due to issues relating to Flash-based game files and the needs of various publishers. TicTacTi is a platform for IVA (In Video Advertising), IGA (In Game Advertising) and widgets which uses image recognition (using standard Flash!) in order to insert In Game Advertising (IGA), enabling game publishers and developers to monetize their assets without the need of additional development or the use of additional Software Development Kit (SDK).

TicTacTi’s image recognition engine seeks these visual events in order to trigger the ad insertion. If the game source already includes TicTacTi’s IGA logo marker (see right), the game preparation stage can be skipped altogether because the image recognition engine will identify it automatically.

6. Comments Box

Facebook has created its first social widget: a fully stylable commenting feature named Comments Box that allows you to add Facebook comments to your website. The Comments Box allows non-Facebook users to make comments on your site as well. And via our APIs, you can access related comments made on Facebook as well to bring the conversation together.”

Instructions for setting up a Comment Box are as follows (via the Facebook developers blog):
1. Set up a basic Connect application. Take note of the API key and specify a callback URL to your website.
2. Download this cross-domain receiver file, and upload it to your website.
Add these snippets of code to each file where you want a Comments Box.
Within the < html > tag, add: xmlns:fb=”http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml”
Add the following code wherever you want a Comments Box to appear in your page. Replace ”’YOUR_API_KEY_HERE”’ with your API key, and include the path to the cross-domain receiver.

7. CDC Data and Statistics Widget.

CDC Data and Statistics Widget. The Center for Disease Control is one of the leading government agencies making use of web 2.0 tools and services. They are actively working to provides citizens reliable, up-to-date information on health and safety concerns like the peanut butter recall and flu activity. As part of their social media efforts, the CDC has available a number of widgets to add to your blog or home page.

Widgets are online applications built by one Web site that can be displayed onto another Web site. The newest widgets include the Flu Updates, Emergency Text Messages and the CDC Data and Statistics Widget. You can embed content in personalized home pages, blogs, and other sites. Once you’ve added the widget, there’s no technical maintenance. CDC.gov will update the content automatically.

8. Closr

The Closr widget helps you zoom in and out of images, and also sharpens the enlarged or diminished image in the process. The widgets also have some other useful functions, like a full-screen button, and another button that resets the photo to its starting size.There’s no limit on the number of images that can be uploaded but once you cross the average limit you’ll be intimated of the same.The maximum size of the uploaded image is 100MB.

Features:

1. It is free and easy to use.
2. Allows you share to share image as zoomable widgets.
3. It supports .jpg, .png and .gif formats.
4. Lets you embed widgets on social networks.
5. It also have a full screen option.
6. Let you organize widgets by tagging.

9. Mpayy

Mpayy introduces a better hassle-free way for buyers and sellers to conveniently send, receive, and track all payments made. Mpayy has deployed a secure payments widget utilizing its flexible services model. Account-holders can now send money for free through http://www.Mpayy.com. Mpayy currently provides free and secure mobile payments from its mobile website at http://mobile.mpayy.com and its online website at http://www.mpayy.com. Mpayy anticipates working with developers and merchants to enable transactions
via cell phone. In addition to being device, network and operating system
agnostic, Mpayy also works with checking accounts from any bank inside the
United States.

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