Debbie Ginsberg's List: Widgets for the Masses-- Cool Tools, 2008 AALL Annual Meeting

Popular Dashboard Widgets: Language translator, iStat Pro (system monitor), Sing that iTune!

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Useful Add-ons: NoScript (stops bad scripts), Zotero (organizes research), Web Developer Toolbar; not all add-ons working Firefox 3

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firefox add-ons on 2008-07-10 and saved by 269 people

Useful Gadgets: Weather, Traffic, To-do list, Calculator, RSS Stream
Useless but amazingly popular: Virtual Flower Pot

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google gadgets widgets on 2008-07-10 and saved by 75 people

Popular Widgets: Yahoo! Finance, Sys Monitor, Desk Calendar, PostIt

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Useful Apps: WorldCat, PreCYdent, JSTOR Search, Visual Bookshelf

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Popular Apps: CNN, How to of the Day, Gmail

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gadgets iGoogle on 2008-07-10

Popular: Movies, SuperPoke, Playlist.com Music Video Playlists

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apps myspace on 2008-07-10

Widgets are mostly RSS feeds

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Customize the widget and copy and paste the code or link.

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Create a chat box on your website

www.meebome.com - Preview

meebo web2.0 widget chat on 2008-07-10 and saved by 123 people

Create a chat box for your website

www.plugoo.com - Preview

web2.0 chat im widget plugoo on 2008-07-10 and saved by 122 people

Popular: All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Sociable (add links to social networks)

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Not all of these are useful to libraries but it's a fun article.

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In beta. Create interactive media viewers.

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leafletter media widget on 2008-07-10 and saved by 2 people

Create a library tool bar to search your catalog, Google Scholar, and more.

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Create a toolbar

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You can do all kinds of things with widgets on this site. Search the gallery to see if anyone has already created a relevant widget or create and customize your own widget.

www.widgetbox.com - Preview

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create Flash widgets

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You've seen how Pipes can create customized RSS feeds, but Pipes can also manipulate data from other sources. The video includes a quick demonstration of what it can do with Flickr, but other data sources can also be used.

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Microsoft had created its own widget-maker, but is now shutting down the site. This is one of the biggest issues you may find with widgets - if someone else is hosting the code, you can only use it as long as the host is viable.

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