CBSSports.com
March Madness begins… With Selection Sunday over and the first games just around the corner, here are a couple of widgets for the 2010 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball Championship from CBSSports.com. Track your favorite team’s progress on their way to the Final Four.
The widgets provide the usual suspect of Scores, Standings, Polls, News and Message Boards updated automatically.
Grab your own widgets now and stay informed!
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February 26th, 2010 Admin 
Google Static Maps
You can now easily generate Google static maps with routes and paths using our new widget.
1) Use the map tool to draw your routes and paths
- Find the location you want to start with and click on map to drop the marker
- Find the next location and repeat
- You can move a marker after has been dropped
- To move great distances in the map you can enter the location and search; centering the map using the search does not drop a marker
2) The static map URL will be automatically generated for you
3) Click “Preview Map” to open the static map preview in a new window/tab
4) Copy/Paste the URL to your web site, page or blog as a IMG tag SRC
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February 22nd, 2010 Admin 
Vancouver Olympics 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are well underway and it’s been a great games. In fact, the US Olympics Team has been amazing so far. From Shaun White’s double McTwist 1260 on this victory lap to Lindsey Vonn’s first ever USA Gold in the Women’s downhill on a bruised shin to the USA Men’s 5-3 win over Canada in hockey. These are just a few of the highlights as USA currently holds the top spot with 24 overall medals.
We love the Olympics for the sports, competition and spirit of the games. If you can’t get enough of it on TV, here are three widgets to keep you updated online.
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February 18th, 2010 Admin A few days ago, we’re not sure the exact time, something changed which caused problems when sharing an AddThis WordPress plugin enabled blog page to Facebook. The FB shares do not have the correct page title, description or images. This problem actually affects any page that uses the AddThis code specified in the technical section later in the post. However, we are only going to address the plugin related problems at this time and provide you with a simple patch.
Here’s a quick little patch for the WordPress AddThis plugin. Follow these instructions at your own risk. This patch has only been tested on WP 2.9.2 and AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget 1.6.1. We do not guarantee the patch nor do we take any responsibility if something breaks.
This patch will only fix pages that are considered by WordPress to be A Single Page, Single Post or Attachment (WP Codex: is_singular). These pages are probably the majority of your important shares.
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Team USA has been promoting their athletes and the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver with a couple of widgets. With the games just 8 days away, we thought we should take a closer look at the widgets.
The widgets themselves are pretty straight forward. The 2 widgets are essentially the same widget in 2 sizes. Both widgets are 300 pixels wide with one being a standard IAB 300×250 pixels. In each widget you get video and athlete content along side a twitter feed. The twitter feed is a nice touch as it gives the widget fresh content more quickly and engages the visitors in the conversation.
As standard practice, you can share this widget and this is where the widget gets interesting for us. Now that Clearspring has announce the end of their Launchpad platform in favor of the AddThis product, a few key items have surfaced as a result of the transition to the AddThis sharing platform.
Built-in gadget, app and embed sharing are now gone as they are not currently supported by AddThis. Google gadgets has been replaced with Google Bookmarks, apps were replaced with stream/feed posts and embeds are now up to the widget coders to support on their own. These changes are not necessarily bad, but they were nice features within Launchpad (not to mention a slew of other features but we’ll save that for another post).
So far so good, even with the loss of the Google Gadgets and Facebook/MySpace Apps.
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