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TagCrowd: Tool For Generating Tag Clouds Online

kaly — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:59:07 +0000

TagCrowd is a web application for generating tag clouds from any submitted text online. With this tag cloud genertor you can create tag clouds from webpages, uploaded text files or simple text. There are also options to style and customize your cloud further; you can set it to ignore common words, customize the number of words displayed, set minimum frequency for words, show or hide occurence count for each tag, and more.

Once tag cloud is created you can easily embed it on to your blog or personal web page.

Features:

Online tag cloud generator.
Generate clouds from webpages, uploaded text file or simple text.
Maximum file size is 100 KB’s for uploaded file and 3 MB’s for pasted text.
Style and customize the cloud to your liking.
Embedding supported.
Similar webistes: Wordle and ZoomClouds.

Check out TagCrowd @ www.tagcrowd.com

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Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog

kaly — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:26:56 +0000

Feed Source allows users to display (embed) any RSS feed on their blog or website. It can be a wordpress blog or just a normal website, doesn’t matter. With Feed Source you can generate an embeddable widget that can be easily added to your navigation sidebar, homepage or anywhere else. All it takes is copy and paste. The widget is fully customizable and can be quickly styled to match the theme of the website. Customize text size, font type, background, link colors and more.

Features:

Display latest titles from any website, blog or news source on your website.
Add widget to your online profile page.
No-registration required. Create as many widgets as you like.
Style widgets: change text size, font type, text alignment, frame and background, widget width, line spacing and link colors.

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Check out FeedSource @ www.rsscontenttool.com

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WidgetEasy : Add External RSS Feeds to your Blog

Aibek — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:28 +0000

Want to spruce up your blog by adding an external RSS feed? widgeteasy.com lets you quickly turn any feed URL into an embeddable widget that can be used pretty much anywhere on the web. It takes two simple steps. Simply paste your feed URL into the provided text box, click on “easy”, and copy and paste generated code to anywhere on the web where you want the widget to appear.

As you can see above, there is also a small RSS button in the top right corner of the widget. This button points to an original RSS feed, thus making it easy for users to subscribe to it via their feedreader.

Features:

Add external RSS feeds to your website.
Embed ready widget on your blog, website, social networking profiles etc.
No registration required.

Check out WidgetEasy @ www.widgeteasy.com

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JS-Kit: Comments, Reviews, Ratings, Polls for your Website

Aibek — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:48:58 +0000

JS-Kit is a free service that offers a number of really useful features for your website, i.e. polls, commenting system, ratings, and more. The integration is really easy and all it takes is a simple copy and paste. Just copy two lines of code to the place where you want the item to appear and done. There are no signups or costs. JS-Kit services include:

1. Navigator

2. JS-Kit Score – Allow your readers to score pages with thumbs up & down icons

3. JS-Kit Comments – The Comments feature allows you to add a full-featured commenting engine to your web site and discover what are the most popular pages on your website. There is absolutely nothing to configure.

4. JS-Kit Reviews – Integrate review system and enable your readers to rate and leave reviews.

5. JS-Kit Polls – As you may have already guessed, this one integrates polls.

6. JS-Kit Ratings – Integrate rating system and allow your users to rate objects on your website. The service is based on a 5-star rating system.

Check out JS-Kit @ www.js-kit.com

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Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

kaly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:15:02 +0000

Wigitize turns RSS feeds to embeddable blog widgets. If you ever need to add some RSS feed to your website Widgitize offers a quick and simple way to do that. No registration required, just enter the address of the website whose feed you want to use and click “Generate blog widget”. Once the widget is ready you can easily customize its style and visual apperance.

Features

Convert any RSS feed to a web widget.
Embed widgets onto your blog or social networking profile.
Customize widget: choose visual style, show/hide title and date, set number of feeds to be shown etc.
No registration or sign up required.

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Check out Wigitize @ [ wigitize.com ]

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RSSMixer: Combine and Access Fav. Feeds via Feedreader, iPhone and Mac

kaly — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:11:12 +0000

Combine all your favorite feeds into one master feed and share it with others. Combined (mixed) feeds can be accessed via regular feedreader, from iPhone, and even added to Apple Dashboard. No-registration requied, just enter the feeds you want to combine and click “Mix”. Next you will be prompted with a page where you can chose the feed format (RSS, iPhone, Web Widget, Apple Dashbopard Widget). Done.

Feature List

Combine multiple feeds into one master feed and distribute them in various formats (RSS, HTML, iPhone page, Web Widget etc).
Download ready mix as a Mac Dashboard widget.
Easily embed ready mix onto any webpage.
Create as many mixes as you want.

Embeddable widgets for bloggers:

Embeddable Apple Widget Button for your blog –

Embeddable iPhone Button for your blog – - – - –

[Video] Screencast tour of RSS mixer

Check out RSSMixer @ [ www.rssmixer.com ]

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ClockLink: Cool Flash Clocks for Your Website

kaly — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:37:05 +0000

ClockLink offers a huge selection of online flash clocks that can be easily added to almost any webpage. Just find the clock you want, set timezone and location settings, and copy ‘n paste generated HTML code on your webpage.

Features

Add ClockLink clocks to your blog, website or social networking profile (Myspace, Bebo, Xanga, etc.).
Browse clock gallery by popularity or category (Newest, Analog, Animal, Animation, Count Down/Up timers, Dark Backgrounds, Digital, Holidays, Logo & Custom, Seasons, Sports, Transparent, Wallpaper).
Download and add clocks to your desktop wallpaper.
Note: Please note, Clocklink doesn’t not work with some of the online blog providers. Read more here.

Check out ClockLink @ www.clocklink.com

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TringMe: Get Voicemails From your Readers

kaly — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:58:51 +0000

Enable your blog readers, prospective eBay buyers, or social networking friends to send you a voicemail directly from the web. Voice messages can be routed to your phone, Gtalk mesenger, or email. To get started, simply sign-up with TringMe and place provided HTML snippet whereever you need it (website, eBay auction, Facebook profile, etc.)

Feature Overview

Get voicemail messages from your website visitors or profile friends (eg. Facebook).
Forward voicemails to your cell phone, landline number, Gtalk or e-mail.
Works with any website or social network, including Blogger, eBay, Facebook, myspace, typepad, wordpress, etc.
Voicemail remains available for 48 hours after receiving the call.
Check out TringMe Demo here
Coming soon: Option for users to bypass voicemail and call you directly.
More Question? Go to TringMe FAQ page.

Check out TringMe @ www.tringme.com

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BlogRush : Free Blog Advertising Network

Aibek — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:16:37 +0000

BlogRush is a network of blogs that run a small “widget” on their pages. This widget displays 5 headlines from the other blogs in the network. By displaying Blogrush widget on its pages, blog earns ‘syndication credits’ (aka ‘headline views’) on other blogs in BlogRush network. For instance, if your blog receives 1000 pageviews in a given day it will additionally earn 1000 ‘headline views’ on similar blogs in BlogRush network.

BlogRush Fetaures

Display widget on your website and earn headline views on the other similar blogs.
Customize widget color to match your site’s theme.
Over 40 categories to choose from: Computers, Education, Celebrity, Internet Marketing, Business, Humor, etc.
Filter links in you widget by title keywords or URLs.
Monitor widget stats: credits earned/used, received traffic, number of referrals, and more.
Refer other bloggers to Blogrush network and earn referral ’syndication credits’
Extremely fast to setup (takes less then 5 minutes).
Works on any blog that allows javascript AND has an active RSS Feed.
Note: At the moment BlogRush accpets only English blogs.
More Questions? Check out videos demo below.

BlogRush Videos

BlogRush Demo Screencast

How To: Install BlogRush On Wordpress Blog

How To: Install BlogRush On Blogspot (Blogger) Blog

How To: Install BlogRush On A Drupal Blog

Go to www.blogrush.com

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Jangl: Send Voicemail to Any Mobile via Email

Aibek — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:40:39 +0000

Jangl is an excellent service that lets you send free voicemail to any mobile via email. What’s special about it is that Jangl provides a local number for the message recipient to call you back, without sharing your real number. The recipient can get connected to you and pay only local calling fees from almost anywhere in the world. And More …

“…through a voicemail delivered by email, you and anyone you want to talk with, can be connected very quickly, via local phone numbers, even if your mobile phone isn’t allowed to dial International numbers. And, right now, it’s pretty much free. That’s pretty cool.”

Jangl Features

Send free voicemail to anyone via email address.
Call your Jangl contacts in over 30 countries and pay only local calling fees. You can use mobile or standard phone line.
Contacts Call Routing: Forward contacts to Voicemail, or connect them directly to your Phone.
Set custom call routing settings for each contact.
Voicemail Notifications: Get voicemail alerts via email, or mobile text-messages (carrier charges may apply).
Listen to your voicemails at Jangl’s website as well as all the other standard dialing options.
Embed Jangl ‘Call Me’ widgets on your blog, website, or profile page (social, business, dating, etc.).
Your phone number always remains secure and invisible to the caller.
Block unwanted contacts.
Note: Jangl Service is free while in beta. When calling from a mobile phone (regardless of destination) only local calling rates apply.
More Questions? Check out Jangl FAQ page.

Jangl Widget (website, blog, profile, etc.)

Jangl Introduction

Go to Jangl [www.jangl.com]

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Goowy : Web-based Startpage

Aibek — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:59:37 +0000

Goowy is a feature-rich, all-in-one, web based startpage and a feedreader. Access all of your feeds and podcasts from one place, upload and share files with friends, manage and organize tasks, and more.

Goowy Features

Get highly customizable startpage incl. hundreds of all kind of widgets (clock, noteboard, sudoku, etc.)
Organize your feeds and widgets in multiple tabs.
Flexible feedreader and podcast player.
Integrated email, calendar and instant messaging clients.
Bookmark manager.
File Manager: Upload, Store, Manage and Share files online.
Access your music from anywhere using Goowy music player.
Contact and Task (ToDo) management tools.
Dozens of free flash games.
Try Goowy demo here (no login requred).
Leran more about in Goowy FAQ page.

Go to Goowy @ [www.goowy.com]

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Amung.us : Track Your Visitors Live

Aibek — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:00:03 +0000

The amung.us is a real-time traffic analytics widget for your website. It tells you (and your readers) how many people are currently on the website, what pages they’re reading, where in the world they’re coming from, and more. No registration required, just copy and paste amung.us code to your website’s template file.

That’s how amung.us will look on your website (this one is ours by the way).

Amung.us Features/Services

1. View a list of pages people are currently reading (incl. the number of readers on each page).

2. View how many people were simultaneously on your site, for any given month/day/hour.

3. Visualize current website visitors by geographical location.

To get started just copy the following code to your blog/website template file.

Go to Amung.us @ [http://amung.us/]

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MadCast : ‘Share This Article’ Widget for Your Blog

Aibek — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:37:19 +0000

MadKast is a free, quick-to-install and useful article sharing widget for blogs. It allows bloggers to add all-in-one ‘Share This Article’ option at the end or beginning of each post. Enable your readers to email, send as mobile MMS, or bookmark (del.icio.us, Digg, etc…) any of your blog posts without leaving your article page. Integration is quick and extremely simple, all you need to do is to add one line of code to your blog’s template file. If you’re on Blogger or Typepad, Madkast can do this for you in a matter of seconds.

Extra Features

- remembers emails and phone numbers your readers used in the past so that next time they want to share a post it’s there.
- tracks which posts are shared most and what other blogs your readers visit.

Check out Madcast Features (video demo)

Get MadCast Wdiget @ (www.madkast.com)

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6 Cool FREE Widget Platforms for your PC (makeuseof.com)

Aibek — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:14:20 +0000

“Widgets are tiny nice-looking programs that can do all sorts of interesting stuff ranging from the addition of a simple desktop clock or weather tool to a feature-rich video player. In many cases the purpose of a desktop widget is to bring functionality of the website (or at least part of it) right to your desktop. …”

Full Article: 6 Cool FREE Widget Platforms for your PC

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YourMinis : Personalized Online StartPage

Aibek — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:55:11 +0000

YourMinis is a highly customizable all-in-one online startpage. Not only it works as a web-based feedreader but also provides a wide choice of integrable widgets to choose from i.e. clock, calculators, calendars, etc.

Feature Overview

Get personalized online startpage with your favorite widgets (clock, games, calculator, news feeds, latest score boards, etc.).
Customize look and feel of your page and each widget individually.
Browse widget gallery by popularity (’top rated’), or category (Blogs, Fun, Games, Music, TV, Developers, etc.).
Add any widget to your blog or profile page (Facebook, Myspace,…).

Check out YourMinis @ www.yourminis.com

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