More on Yedda widgets
Yedda, my favourite Q&A service, has added some more widgets and enhanced the earlier ones.
1. FAQ - choose a Yedda topic to display some FAQ on the topic
What about if this was more personalised…Yedda could scan your blog content and choose the latest Yedda questions that match your blog content.
2. Got a question - people can ask a question to the Yedda community directly from your blog
They way it works is that Yeddites (these are people registered with Yedda…I just made this up) will come across these questions and may choose to answer them, also certain Yeddites are invited by the system to answer the question as the content may meet their profile…and now the blog owner is also invited to answer the question by default.
3. My profile - self explanatory
I kind of wish the My profile widget included the Got a Question widget.
Another thing I hear in the works is enabling people to ask questions without having to be registered with Yedda.
Widgets are becoming the new web connectors, whether in your blog sidebar, a start page, you could fill your own your own website with widgets from services you are registered with, or just widgets in general.
I think widgets and start pages go hand in hand as your personal dashboard, some similar services like SuprGlu or Ziki re-syndicate content rather than use widgets…also see ID services.
For all things widgets check out Widgetbox.
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I’m working on a screencast about widgets for nonprofit blogs, could you tell me what you think? I know you’re writing from a library perspective, but some of it crosses over to npland.
See my collected posts.
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/widgets/index.html
Specifically, I want to know if anyone uses your widgets? Why you think they are useful? The drawbacks?
And, PS, did you get all the stuff at the end of this post - listen, print, discuss, etc.
Comment by Beth — November 4, 2006 @ 1:50 pm