Some Cool RSS Widgets

In the past year the number of RSS widgets has exponentially grown. It seems like wherever you go a new widget pops up. In case you don’t know, widgets are basically small scripts that you can put on your site, blog, etc. There are all sorts of them, but today I’m going to talk about the RSS feed widgets.

Freedo Style

Freedo Style is number one because it is really cool, and it has a cool name. You can customize everything about their widget, and I mean everything.

Widgetbox

Widgetbox lets you create a widget for your feed. You can then add a small “get my widget” button which will let your readers add the widget to their blog in a couple of clicks. This is used on many high traffic blogs.

FeedBurner Headline Animator

I can’t post a link to the FeedBurner Headline Animator, but I can tell you it is inside the “Publicize” tab of FeedBurner. This lets you cycle through the top five headlines of your feed, a useful tool for advertising your content.

FeedBurner Counter

Just like with the above widget, this one can be found in the “Publicize” tab of FeedBurner. The FeedBurner counter lets you show off how many subscribers you have. However, I wouldn’t recommend posting a counter unless you have a lot of subscribers.

MuseStorm

And finally we have MuseStorm. This service lets you create a widget and post it all over the place, and it also provides some nice statistics about where your widget is being used.

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