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Box.net have announced that their service is now available as a sidebar widget on the free WordPress.com blogs. This should be a very handy addition for the WordPress community, I know a couple of times in the past I have wanted an easy way to share a file on my Whedon's World blog and have ended up posting a link out to one of the other file sharing services, now I will be able to do it right on my own site. You can see it in use on my Joss Whedon blog.

clipped from blog.box.net Box.net on Wordpress.com! We’re very excited to announced that the Box.net widget is now a sidebar option on Wordpress.com, our favorite blog host. To add the Box widget to your sidebar, just click Dashboard -> Presentation -> Sidebar widgets -> then drag in the Box widget into the sidebar. Awesome.

Announcesd on Tuesday by Andy was the addition of VodPod as a new widget on all WP.com sites.

I am very happy to announce a new widget that is available to all WordPress.com blogs: Vodpod.com’s video sharing widget. Vodpod has tagging and voting and LOL’ing and everything else you’d expect from a Web 2.0 mashup and we’re just as pleased as parking meters to have this widget on WordPress.com!

This is a prety nifty little widget that allows you to save your favourite videos from around the web straight on to your blog page sidebar with just one click. If you want to you can upload your own videos to your VodPod account and have them on your site too, a nice easy way to include some vlogging on your site if that is your kind of thing.

I have it installed on my Whedon blog if you want to go check it out.

 I just read about the new Widgipedia over at Techscape, this looks like it could prove to be a very useful site to have bookmarked, a total widget-fest for all you widget lovers!

Widgipedia online widget-fest officially launches

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Oh yes. Widgets are taking over the Web 2.0 world, as any fule kno, so what better than a website cataloguing every single widget available: including those for your desktop and web browser? Widgipedia is that site - I like what they've done with the name there - and it's already a comprehensive database of widgety goodness, along with developer forums and technical info if you're actually making widgets yourself, rather than just filling up your computer with them. No mobile stuff in there yet, although hopefully Nokia's WidSets will make it in sooner rather than later.

Source: Techscape » Blog Archive » Widgipedia online widget-fest officially launches

I have already found a couple I like the look of, you can guess where the rest of my evening will be spent. ;-)

At the moment I am trying out some of the widgets at widgetbox, there seem to be plenty of gizmos over there, some of which could be useful, or just plain fun! I came across them over at profy.com in an article on the growing use of widgets, there are also some other useful links over there that are worth checking out. As to the usability of the widgets, well at the moment I seem to be wrestling with them a little. They are probably idiot proof, which in my world is defined as being yet further proof that I am an idiot.

See that spinning cube to the side? It's got a few of my flickr photos on it, and it is my first real proper widget all safely installed. I finally feel as though I am getting somewhere. . . now if only I can work out where that "somewhere" actually is.