Google Bling
Google launched Google Widgets for the web yesterday. Gotta get some Google bling on my sidebars for sure!
So I've started with a FeedBurner widget (down at the bottom of the left sidebar).
It shows how my subs are trending and how much FeedBurner owes me (I'd rather know how much I've made month to date and year to date, but that wasn't an option).
I have an even better widget coming that does something completely different but I need some help with it. I think you'll like it when I get it up.
Google's done a great job with their web widgets. They are easy to use and there are a ton of them.
I wonder if Google widgets might become a platform of sorts since they are so open. I'd like to get my sitemeter stats this way, my delicious popular this way, etc, etc.
Way to go Google.
Neat. FYI, with the feedburner widget, instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/, you can just put the which cleans up the display on the widget. And you can add more than one by separating them with commas.
Thanks for the find.
Posted by: Mike | October 04, 2006 at 09:28 AM
Fred, why not use Snipperoo? Then you could put that widget up the top for the first few days so we can all see it - then just move it down the bottom or remove it.
It's great to see all the Google Gadgets arrive as code widgets - what a boost to the system.
Posted by: ivan | October 04, 2006 at 09:36 AM
How are these different than Feedburner Buzzboost -- where I can take any pre-existing Feedburner Feed and drop it into my site really easily using javascript?
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Posted by: jack42 | October 04, 2006 at 11:39 AM
It's great that Google has just pumped 1200 more widgets into the ecosystem, but it's odd that they would optimize them for 300+ pixel width. Fred, I think you agree with the move in theory, but in practice, without some CSS work, none of the Google widgets will work on your blog.
Posted by: lawrence coburn | October 04, 2006 at 12:51 PM