Blogging Tools, Widgets and Gadgets
Tag Clouds - Tagging has become an essential part of browsing the internet these days. If you have read my previous two posts on tagging you would now know why I am not a big fan of the concept and I am not alone in this regard. Well if it is proving to be a necessary evil then it better be easy. Here I did a bit of research regarding the visualization of tags and their usability. There is no denying the fact that more and more people are taking to the net these days and with all these tags flying around their usability is a central tenet that would determine the longevity of the idea.
Smart Web Gadgets - makes useful gadgets and other website applications that are easy to use and install on your site. Their gadgets can be embedded on almost any web site, or blog, page simply by adding a few lines of code and are free to use by any webmaster or site owner interested in adding personalized tools and content to their sites through an attractive, intuitive and compact user interface.
Add This - Add This is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. We help website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. Launched in 2006, Add This has grown dramatically and is currently viewed over 20 billion times a month by users all over the world in over 20 languages.
Blog Pulse - BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
Blog Rolling - BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease. There are a lot of tools out there to help you blog without getting your hands dirty - but managing your linklist still means having to crawl through the HTML in your template every time you want to add or remove a link. No more! Now it's as simple as clicking a link or making a pit stop at BlogRolling.
Google Blog Search - Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.
Social Web Tools - This blog / website carries cool blogging tools, blog reviews, gadget reviews, wordpress plugins, micro-blog tools, facebook applications, twitter tools, scripts and much more. You can even submit a tool to them for review.
Widget Box - Widgetbox is the leading self-service web widget platform. Every day, they help millions of people express, connect, create, and inform using web widgets. Web widgets are mini, portable-applications that can be added to any web page.
Wowzio Widgets - After you give them your blog's url, they take over from there. Their servers automatically read your blog regularly (every half hour) to extract interesting pictures and data to display in your widgets. Not to mention, they have put an incredible amount of thought and deliberation in the design and work-flow of their widget builder as well as the widgets themselves. Their goal is to make the process of creating and installing a widget a blissfully simple, fun and pleasant experience.
Arcsin Free Templates - We have been giving away free templates for years, and have been designing our websites as well. Every now and again we'll search for free templates on the internet and use one for a base as our website. This is the case here, we grabbed this free template from Arcsin website, we liked the look and the fact that we could incorporate a blog to match. Have a look at his site for Wordpress and Website Templates.
Slash Dot - You can submit your articles at Slash Dot.org. They say that they are the "News for Nerds and The Stuff That Matters" So, if you have postes, articles, tutorials anything you want to help you get more exposure sign up, it's free and full of great content.
Sphere Related Content Widget - The Sphere Related Content Widget connects with an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, they will find blog and media articles related to your blog posts. It's easy Wordpress Plug in, and you won't have to worry about slowing down your blog.
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