Widget Crazy - A Huge List of Widget Sites

Sarah Perez on March 17th, 2008

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

Clearspring - widget platform
Mashupmania - Build your own mashup widget in a virtual environment without coding
Showyourself - Show your community & social media memberships
SproutBuilder - online widget builder

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

Amnesty Hypercube - move web widgets to your desktop
Widgipedia - desktop and blog widgets
Yourminis - widgets for your web site/blog or desktop
Yahoo Widgets
Google Gadgets

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11 Responses to “Widget Crazy - A Huge List of Widget Sites”

AvatarMarch 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

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

http://widgetlabs.com
deanMarch 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

Hello,

Thank you for the mention!

Regards,

Dean
YouCams.com
Al MerkrebsMarch 17th, 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
SarahMarch 17th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

@Al

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

Nice blog, btw!
CorvidaMarch 18th, 2008 at 12:56 am

Fab list! Gotta bookmark it. Are there any in particular that’d you’d recommend personally?
AvatarMarch 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am

whoops:

it is;

http://widgetslab.com

now, that is about right.
CattoMarch 18th, 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
SarahMarch 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Sorry, Catto, sure don’t…
SarahMarch 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

wait, how ’bout http://pcwin.com/Utilities/Launch_n_Go/index.htm
AvatarMay 19th, 2008 at 12:21 am

umm, i guess you never got to update your list in this post..
AvatarJuly 17th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Thanks Sarah, you are an angel