Widget Creation: Bonus Points

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I created my own “Triathlon and Tour de France Blogs and Podcast” widget using a site called http://grazr.com . I added the following feeds into my widget which can be seen on grazr.com site at the following address: http://grazr.com/config?view=o&file=http://grazr.com/data/jason.potsander/Triathlon_and_Tour_de_France_Blogs_and_Podcasts_1

http://www.velonews.com/lennard-zinn

http://podcast.tri-talk.com/feed.aspx?feedId=371

http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesblog/blog.html

http://www.martindugard.com/

http://community.active.com/blogs/frankie

http://community.active.com/blogs/tourdefrance/

I found the process of creating a widget relatively easy after clicking on the “Tour” tab and following the directions indicated on how to create and publish your widget. The “Tour” tab page can be viewed at: http://grazr.com/info/tour

Basically, my widget acts as a feed reader and Podcast collector for a few sites that I have been using to stay abreast of Triathlon and Tour de France news. My widget is relatively simple in that it deals with one subject, however one could create multiple folders each dedicated to different subjects and amass quite a collection of centralized information.

My widget creation can be viewed and published to your site at:
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The sophistication that Grazr is capable of is illustrated in the “MennoWidget” that a friend of mine created. The purpose of this widget is to collect news, links, audio and video related to the Mennonite faith. It includes folders that categorize feeds into “links, news, podcasts, and video.” Since I am an alumni of the Mennonite College, Goshen College, I particularly enjoy hearing podcasts of weekly chapels and convocations that currently take place there.

The “MennoWidget” can be viewed at the Grazr site: http://grazr.com/config?theme=sateen_green&fontsize=9pt&file=http://grazr.com/data/MennoWidget/bc6cb10

Once my I entered my desired feeds into my Grazr widget I published the widget to my iGoogle page using the convenient publishing options listed on Grazr’s home page. Options to publish to many other popular services were also automatically available, such as blogspot, facebook, iPhone, twitter, and netvibes.