Widget. TwitThis. Tweetizen: Create Instant Twitter Community on Your Website. This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Tweetizen Quick Pitch: Tweetizen allows you filter tweets and display them in nice and easy groups that you can embed on to your own website. Genius Idea: There are plenty of ways to create groups for Twitter, but Tweetizen fills a slightly different need than most of the other tools we’ve seen so far, in that it lets you create a group and embed it on your own website.
Tweetizen lets you create Groups around either interests or people. The result is both a webpage on Tweetizen and a widget that you can embed on your own website. What I like best about Tweetizen is that it’s a way to add instant community to your website. Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark. Widgets to the Rescue - 2/1/2008 - School Library Journal. 50 Great Widgets For Your Blog. Credit: Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you'd like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets.
We've assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don't overdo it! MyBlogLog's Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site. Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge - display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream. Preview Anywhere - see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Twitter Badge - if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you're up to all the time, then a Twitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. Yahoo! HOW TO 2008: How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media. During 2008, we've tried to bring you the best how-tos for achieving more with social media tools: everything from Google products to blogging to online video to productivity and beyond.
Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Friendfeed, and Delicious all got the How-To treatment. Today, as the year draws to a close, we bring you a hand-picked selection of Mashable's social media How-To articles in 2008; some holiday reading, perhaps, or something to refer back to once you restart the daily grind in 2009. Enjoy! Google How-Tos How to Sync Google Services With Your Mobile Device HOW TO: Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Google Maps How to Preview New Google Chrome Features How to Install Google Chrome Greasemonkey Scripts (Windows Only) HOW TO: Optimize a Pre-Existing Google AdWords Account Facebook How-Tos HOW TO: Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes HOW TO: Search for Facebook Images Based on Shape, Color, Keywords Twitter How-Tos HOW TO: Build Community on Twitter.
TwitterGadget: Auto-refreshing Twitter client.