Within my circle of friends and acquaintances in the past couple of days, I have learned about two fun widgets. I installed one in the side panel of this blog. It is called MEEBO and it is a simple code that embeds a chat window wherever you want on your web site and allows people to chat with you who happen to visit your site. You just go to the MEEBO web site and enter in a user name and password and code is automatically generated for you to insert onto your site.
The next fun item is called SPROUT and the promo on the web site claims, “With Sprout, you can build, publish and manage widgets, mini-sites, banners, mashups and other rich media Web content in three easy steps…” You don’t need to sign up unless you publish a sprout, it’s free and you start building your “sprout” immediately. The only way to really understand what I am saying is to go try it out for yourself and see how simple it is. I built this “sprout” of Whitney Ransom McGowan in about 30 minutes since I was learning as I created. If you have all of the assets gathered together, building time is just a matter of simple assembly. I thought i could embed it into WordPress, but was unsuccessful.