Widgets are proliferating. What’s a widget? A widget is a little box you can drop into your Web page or blog which displays something or other. If you look at the sidebar (scroll down), you’ll see a MuseStorm widget for the del.icio.us “marketing” RSS feed.

TechCrunch’s story “PostApp launches WidgetBox, a marketplace for widgets” shows how popular widgets are becoming:

PostApp will manage the process of turning web services into widgets that bloggers, social network users and others can insert into their pages. Outside developers will create web services, submit them to PostApp for transforming into widgets and content publishers like bloggers, auction sellers and social network users will select the widgets they want from the WidgetBox marketplace. The service will also manage the money for widgets that involve financial transactions like affiliate links or subscription, though developers will have first say in determining the business rules of their projects. PostApp will act as a master affiliate or subscription center, as appropriate.

Exciting stuff. Using a widget or two can make your site more useful to your visitors.

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