A Widgets are portable chink of code that can be installed and executed in any separate web site or a blog. In most cases, users needs to place simple code scripts in order to show specific widgets on own site. Using widgets can easily extend your blog or site functionality and productivity.

Below widgets can be used on any website that supports HTML and JavaScript codes. They’re very useful for free-hosted web sites or blogging systems.

Social Network Widgets

Below you will find the best widgets supported from popular social media sites and services on the internet.

• Digg News – Add a Digg.com news widget to your website. Displays latest news on Digg on your site through the widget platform. Fully customizable and easy to setup.
• Twitter Widget – Get a Twitter widget on your site connected to your own Twitter account. Customizable and can increase your overall twitter followers.
• Delicious Widget – Official del.icio.us widget for popular social bookmarking website. Works just fine and it’s customizable to fit nicely on your site or blog.
• Delicious Linkrolls – Linkrolls are a way for you to have your latest Delicious bookmarks displayed as part of your website. Very nice and functional widget which you can place on your site.
• MyBlogLog Widget – One of the most popular widgets for bloggers. Service owned by Yahoo!. Can display latest visitors on your blog through this widget and some basic stats.
• Technorati Link Count – Displays your blog Technorati link count through this widget. Updated live for all your visitors. Nice way to share this info on your blog.
• Mixx Widget – Add Mixx content to your website or blog using our quick and easy widget creator. Simply select your theme, add content, and set a few options and you’re on your way to widget bliss.

Multimedia Widgets

Audio, video and photo related widgets are displayed below.

• Radio.Blog.Club – Insert mp3 audio player on your web site or a blog. Supports many features and has very large music database. Recommended to try for anyone.
• Flickr Badge – Create a simple photo stream widget for your blog or a website. Very easy to customize and insert on your website. Greatly connects your Flickr account with your blog or site readers.
• Flixin – Displays live video from your website through the widget for your blog or a website. Very nice and advanced way to promote and express yourself.
• Box Widget – Share your Box.net uploaded files on your blogs, Social network websites or anywhere you want.Very nice looking widget for this great free hosting service.
• Skype Button – Display your Skype status on your website through this widget. Very useful, specially if you use Skype a lot and make your business through it.
• Google Video Search – Allows users to directly search Google Video site from this widget. Customizable and can be very useful widget for any site.
• Google Map Search – Embed a searchable Google Map on your web page and let your users find places around you. Customize how the map should be displayed, and this wizard will write the code for you.
• Blinkx – Embedded related videos to your blog or site content. Works very good and supports most blogging systems on the internet. Of course, completely free to use.

Other Useful Widgets

Other types of the widgets that doesn’t fit in any above categories. You can find the other useful widgets below.

• Gas Price Widget – This widget display gas prices on your blog. Can be very useful for traffic or travel related blogs or sites. For others, might not be that useful.
• iBegin Weather – Cool weather widget for your blog. Currently support only weather informations in USA and Canada. Hope to see more areas and regions soon.
• ClockLink – Display time in various time zones from your blog. Has really impressive list of the supported clock styles and themes. Based on Adobe Flash technology.
• PR Checker – Displays your site Google Page Rank directly and live using this widget. Displays you most appropriate results in nice styled buttons.
• RockYou – The unique horoscope widget generator. Place your own (or any other) horoscope widget on your web site or a blog. Can be very useful for some sites.
• Library Thing – Put a widget on your blog and show your visitors what you’re reading now, random books from your collection, your tag cloud, etc.
• Timelines – Insert cool timelines on your blog. A timeline is a graphical representation of a chronology or events in time. Works very good and installation is too easy.

If you have any other widget that you think I’ve forget to add. Feel free to post your request by comment form below. I’ll include all quality web based widgets you purpose.

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