The stage is set for the NFL Pro Bowl and Super Bowl Sundays. Get this widget to keep up-to-date with the latest news in the NFL heading into the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl games.
This widget comes equipped with a game countdown, news headlines, roster and twitter feed. You can also “Grab” your own copy, powered by gigya.
Pro Bowl – Sun, Jan 31st @ 7:30 PM ET. on NBC
Super Bowl – Sun, Feb 7th @ 6:00 PM ET. on CBS
The AddThis Sharebar was released into beta back on December 17, 2009. We’ve played around with it on a couple of sites and generally it’s been a good experience. Getting the code and deploying on a site is dead simple, just copy and paste some code. Out of the box you get the all the sharing features as you would expect. One of the features we really liked is the personalized services feature. What that does is it presents a list of personalized sharing options based on the user. So, if I share to Twitter more frequently than any other service, the Twitter icon would be the first option. You don’t have to lock yourself into a specific list of services, just let AddThis manage the personalized list of top services for each individual.
There were a couple of things we thought AddThis could have done better on. While there are a good number of customizations and options available, we felt that it could be expanded. For example, something like a fixed width on the Sharebar to match that of the site. The AddThis staff have indicated they are evaluating more customization options and will add them as appropriate.
Here’s a widget from NVIDIA to help their consumers find and update their drivers. This widget will allow site owners to provide a quick and easy tool for their users to find NVIDIA drivers.
The widget has two methods for finding drivers.
use the usual form of dropdown lists to filter and search
use the auto detection tool to scan a user’s system
From NVIDIA.com
Do you want to offer your visitors a way to automatically detect the latest NVIDIA drivers? With one quick cut and paste, you can now create a link to NVIDIA’s graphics driver download widget!
This is public service announcement and not a widget review. It is nice to see the government embrace widgets as a means to communicate and extend their reach. There are improvements that could be made in regards to the widgets, but we won’t mention them here as to not distract from the purpose of the widgets.
Below are 6 informational widgets on H1N1 (Swine Flu) from the CDC.
H1N1 (Swine Flu)
Fraudulent H1N1 Products Widget (FDA)
6 Consumer Quick Facts for 2009 H1N1 Flu Antivirals
5 Clinician Quick Facts for 2009 H1N1 Flu Antivirals
For more alerts, news, feeds and categories go here.
About CPSC:
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products – such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals – contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.
