50 Great Widgets For Your Blog

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. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of 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. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

• 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. It’ll proudly displays your recent tweets.

• Digg News – display the latest Digg  links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

• FEEDJIT – real time traffic data directly in your blog’s sidebar.

• LineBuzz – inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

• Flixn – display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you’re up to. 

• 3Jam – lets your visitors send messages to your mobile phone, without them knowing your phone number.

• Jaxtr – with Jaxtr, your visitors can actually call you to your mobile phone; again, your number stays private.

• LinkedInABox – show off your LinkedIn profile. Perfect for personal blogs.

• Box Widget – enable visitors to use box.net’s online storage directly on your web site.

• Price of gas – displaying gas prices on your blog might seem unnecessary to some, but it’s cool if you have a traffic/travel related blog.

• iBegin Weather Widget – Display weather information in your sidebar. Just like with Price of Gas, works great with travel-related blogs.

• ClockLink – display time in various time zones with these nifty Flash clocks.

• Film Loops – display the latest loops from your FilmLoops account.

• Daily Painters – display paintings from famous painters on your blog.

• WhoLinked – show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site. Works with all major blog platforms.

• Criteo AutoRoll – displays links to blogs similar to your blog.

• Bitty Browser – embed a cute, fully functional mini web browser to your blog.

• Leafletter – create a mini website and embed it into your blog.