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Yahoo! MyBlogLog Gets Updated

Yahoo! MyBlogLog has included a couple of updates since the last time I took a close look at the service. For one, sorting through “followers” and considering reciprocal “friend adding” is easier because you can filter through the list of friends in a pretty speedy fashion (especially if you have a hundred or more pending followers).

Wishlist Widget Allows Digital Gifting

Getting a virtual slice of pizza might be fun and all, but five-month-old startup gBox is betting that people would rather receive something more tangible this holiday season. It's also betting social networkers will appreciate its new Wishlist widget more than Facebook's Beacon program.

Widget Growth Driven By Social Networks

Users of widgets are more likely to receive them from friends than from companies that created them, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "Widgets: Delivering Applications Users Want." User between the ages of 18-24 are six times more likely to receive widgets from friends than from a company.

Google Joins the Widget World

Just when you think the web world is going to settle down, get out its pipe and slippers and kick back, someone rips up the blueprint and we have to start all over again.

Clearspring Launchpad Sends Widgets To All

If you have content on a website, all it takes to make that content an embeddable widget is a little bit of code, which Clearspring happens to have available for free.

TurnHere Signs New Distribution Partners

Online video solutions platform TurnHere, has announced more than a dozen new distribution partners for its online video channel BookVideos.tv.

Hitwise Launches New Widget

Online intelligent service Hitwise has launched a new Hitwise Widget that will highlight online usage trends from Hitwise To Go.

Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis Google Gadget

I put my favorite keyword research tools and competitive research tools in a Google Gadget. Thanks to Jay at Widget Waker for making the original version with a sweet design, which I hacked up a bit to add a few more tools at the last minute. If you use the iGoogle homepage you can add the tool to your homepage by selecting add by URL and then submitting this URL: http://tools.seobook.com/google-gadgets/keywords.xml

Blogger Adds Search Box Widget

Blogger, Google's blogging platform, just added a new widget bloggers can install that lets them search within their blogs.

7 Rules for Widget Success

Live from WidgetCon Speaker: Shervin Pishevar, President, Freewebs The age of engagement has begun. Umm, hasn’t it begun a few years ago? 7 Rules for Widget Success (we must take notes – he has a number in it – you MUST write down every point with a number, which is why I always structure my presentations that way)