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Badger allows you to create your own collape/expand RSS widget, these look similar to feed display boxes in start pages.

Basically it is an RSS to Java re-syndication badge, but the fancy thing about it is that you can collapse/expand the box.
For more re-syndication techniques see here, widgets are the go for this type of thing at the moment, but sometimes RSS to Java blends in nicely to your website or blog.

A tool like Badger could be used at the end of each post, to perhaps show Technorati inlinks, or perhaps the latest posts in your blog.
A more static tool is RSS2GIF.

I’d like to create a collapse/expand badge for a bunch of links, I could use these for my blog sidebar…neaten things up. Otherwise follow the 3spots post on java expand/collapse coding.

RSS to the side, what about including text in a badge, great idea if you want to go off in a tangent in a blog post, just expand to read the tangent, or leave collapsed to ignore it, see sidenote for an alternative.
Other similar tools are Bitty, Grazr and LinkBlox (pity this doesn’t collapse/expand).

Back to RSS…

Now imagine if you could have as many Badgers as you like on your own website, well of course you can using a Public startpage like Pageflakes.
Similar display pages are SpeedyFeed, FeedRaider, Bozpages, Njuice, Spotback, yourmini’s, and more.

Here’s my Badger, for some reason my blog has problems handling java.

TimeBridge - a plugin for Outlook to schedule possible times for meetings.

Yatam - a status site or a status for where you will be and a contacts list. A user page consists of where, when, and comment. This way your buddies will know where you are or where you’ll be…also archives history. Great idea, but there needs to be group threading, and SMS, ie. post your status from your phone, and get a friends status by SMS, plus SMS’g your contact or contact list, and replies. Also see Wayacracker to organise an event.

dekoh - seems like a Webtop and more…download apps, and share from your desktop with other dekoh users, they can see a public webpage…has similar features to tubes (sharing from your desktop). TechCrunch has more.

Pickle - similar to cellblock, send media from your phone to a widget, this widget can live anywhere, on your website, blog, etc…I like that multiple people can post to the same pickle. More from Read/Write Web, this fits into my media mashup post.

Divshare Uploader - a plugin to upload a file to your Divshare file hosting service from within a draft blog post and then insert the file into your post with one click (mp3’s come with a portable player).
This is going to be the easiest way to get photo’s and audio inside your blog posts, all you have to do is take the screen shot and save the file on your PC, then from a draft post it is all done…I suppose this eliminates the middle step of loading the file into the file host, then taking the code and putting it in your blog post.

LifeTrackers - set up an account (also sharing features), and send emails and photo’s to your LifeTracker email address, later on do some touch up editing and print a PDF book.
Awesome idea, if you have email on your phone, post photo’s and text and then later on print out your book of thoughts and captured moments…even share the account with a posse of friends. I’d love to share a group book with mobile artists, who shoot spontaneous pictures and text, to later print as a PDF book.
Pickle and Cellblock above have the similar idea.