Best of the Blog Widgets for Your Blog

A list of my favorite blog widgets:
* Swicki "Hot Searches" Buzzcloud (from Eurekster)
* Recent Readers (from MyBlogLog)
* Flash Photo Stream (from Flickr)
* Preview Anywhere (from Snap)
* "What Am I Doing" Twitter Badge (from Twitter)

* Film Loops (from FilmLoop)
* Number of Readers FeedCount (from Feedburner)
* "I'm online" Skype buttons (from Skype)
* del.icio.us Tagometer (from del.icio.us)
* del.icio.us Linkrolls (from del.icio.us)
* del.icio.us Network Badge (from del.icio.us)
* Timelines (from MyTimelines)
* Link Count (from Technorati)
* Polls (from PollDaddy)
* Now Playing (from SIGamp)
* BuzzBoost (from Feedburner)
* Books in my Library (from LibraryThing)
and these which are not really widgets, but plugins (for WordPress):
* Ultimate Tag Warrior (tag clouds)
* Share This (add to social bookmarking services)
* Recent Comments (recent comments in the sidebar)
Many more widgets listed in the Widgetoko and Widgetbox directories.

Just remember when "blinging" out your blog, not to overdue it. Think critically about the value to your reader of each badge / widget that you add, because it adds download time to your pages, which detracts from the user experience.

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