Mar
17

Widget Crazy – A Huge List of Widget Sites

widget Love widgets? Can’t get enough? Then check out this collection of widget web sites for finding and/or creating your own widgets for use on your site, blog, social network, or desktop. Did I leave any great ones off? Let me know in the comments!

Search/Directories

  • Cleverhippo – widget search engine
  • Flickerdna -  flickr widgets
  • Goodwidgets – photo widgets for your blog
  • SpringWidgets – huge selection of blog widgets
  • Snippero – widgets for your web site
  • Spinlets – free web site/blog widgets – 2 galleries – Music and General, which features widgets for Twitter, digg, flickr, YouTube, and more
  • Widgetoko – blog that tracks daily widget awesomeness
  • Widgetbox – widgets for your blog
  • Widgipedia – desktop and blog widgets
  • YouCams – video cam widgets for your blog
  • Yourminis – widgets for your web site/blog or desktop
  • WidgetLabs - all sorts of widgets categorized for easy browsing

Build Your Own

RSS Widgets

  • Feedflash – A free online tool to create web widgets, feed readers and place them everywhere on the web.
  • Feednames – feednames is an advanced, automatic namecloud widget. Using artificial intelligence techniques based on LingPipe technology, feednames extracts the most relevant words from each article in the feed, and automatically creates a “namecloud” out of them.
  • Grazr – RSS widget
  • Opod – OPML & RSS widget
  • Optimal – OPML widget

Stats Widgets

  • Myustats – page rank & more
  • Neoworx – cool stats widgets – even one that looks like an iPod

Desktop Widgets

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11 Comments to “Widget Crazy – A Huge List of Widget Sites”

  1. Avatar says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Oh Sarah… how could you forget us like that??

    http://widgetlabs.com

  2. dean says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Hello,

    Thank you for the mention!

    Regards,

    Dean
    YouCams.com

  3. Al Merkrebs says:
    March 17, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    Hi Sarah,

    Great list! Thank you for all of that work.

    You may have intentionally left off some of the obvious ones, like Yahoo! widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com/) and Google gadgets (http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/).

    Also, Clearspring (www.clearspring.com) is a great widget site for grabbing widgets or creating your own.

    Finally, hope you don’t mind if I put in a little plug for my widget blog, widgetBeat (www.widgetBeat.net).

    Thanks again.

    -Al

  4. Sarah says:
    March 17, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    @Al

    Yeah, I did, but maybe that was a bad idea…I added them now.

    Nice blog, btw!

  5. Corvida says:
    March 18, 2008 at 12:56 am

    Fab list! Gotta bookmark it. Are there any in particular that’d you’d recommend personally?

  6. Avatar says:
    March 18, 2008 at 1:17 am

    whoops:

    it is;

    http://widgetslab.com

    now, that is about right.

  7. Catto says:
    March 18, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Hey Now Sarah,
    That is a good list. I also was wondering if you know of an add in for XP to use the functionality that vista has for this feature. When pressing the windows button & a number for instance windows button + 2 that will open the second app listed in the quick launch? You always have great post & I’ve looked for this & haven’t found it maybe if you know about you could post about it.
    as always thx 4 the info,
    Catto

  8. Sarah says:
    March 18, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Sorry, Catto, sure don’t…

  9. Sarah says:
    March 18, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    wait, how ’bout http://pcwin.com/Utilities/Launch_n_Go/index.htm

  10. Avatar says:
    May 19, 2008 at 12:21 am

    umm, i guess you never got to update your list in this post.. :(

  11. Avatar says:
    July 17, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Thanks Sarah, you are an angel :D