Widgets offer a convenient way to add functions to web sites (and blogs). WidgetBox is a site providing access to a variety of widgets. If you want to add unique features to your blog, you might want to give widgets a try. The widget I have added offers the opportunity to search within my blog (I know you can already do that, but I needed something I could test). I also know that a search widget serves little use within a blog entry, but as they say on television – “This is only a test.”
I found a second example. I wrote about my fascination with the social music service Last.FM in a previous post. The following widget shows the music I have listened to recently as stored by this service.