fiidgets financial widgets for websites

Fund search engine

Now you can convert your Google custom search engine to a widget/gadget. Below is a fund search engine:

To add the fund search widget above to any web page, go to homepage of fund search engine and follow instructions on lower right corner.

Popularity: 25% [?]

More stock widgets

Besides Yahoo! Finance Badge, AdaptiveBlue and Seeking Alpha also has stock widget. Below is stock widgets for Google:

• AdaptiveBlue stock widget
  
  Google, Inc. On the left is stock widget from AdaptiveBlue. To know more about the stock, click on blue dot on the left.
• Seeking Alpha stock widget
  
• Yahoo! stock widget
  

Popularity: 37% [?]

Daily performance of global indices

Based on the results of poll as of 12/9/07, most request widget is daily performance of global indices. Below is global indices in two different formats:

You can use the same widget for US indices and ETFs.

If you are interested in global investment using funds, visit my global investment blog

Popularity: 7% [?]

Widget conferences

So far I have found two conferences dedicated to widgets.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Finance widget showcase #2

• Existing Auto Loan Analysis Calculator
  
• Commodities Market
  
• Mortgage Rate Watch
  

Popularity: 7% [?]

Poll time!

A lot of people do not like to participate in polls. However without some information, it is hard to improve on this site. So please help yourself by participating in polls on the right-hand sidebar. Thanks.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Are widgets useless or overrated?

According to Valleywag, widgets are useless or overrated? Below is my comments on the reasons given:

• A violation of blog principles.
  I would disagree with this reason. How a widget is being used is depending on the user. The widget developer cannot force the user to use the widget in a predetermined way. The freedom of mix and match is the strength(weakness depending on your viewpoint) of widget.
• A sluggish page is a bad page.
  In my opinion, users and developers of widget should view widget as graphics. Too many widgets on a page makes the page cluttered. If most of your visitors are from US and most of your widgets are hosted in US, I think 5 to 6 is the maximum number of widgets per page. Otherwise three widgets per page is the general guideline. You may also move the ’slow’ widget to the bottom of a page as most modern browsers support progressive rendering.
• Statistics.
  I would agree with this point.
• Business model.
  The issue of monetization is not a unique problem for widget developer. In fact most free web 2.0 sites have similar issue. For now, the developer can use widget for marketing/publicity purposes for other products/services.
• Hype.
  At the moment, noise to usefulness ratio for widget is quite high. This is not unusual. Widget is in similar position to blog a few years ago. Do you have an idea for widget related finance? You can write down your idea in the comment section of post. You can also get some ideas from This Week’s Top 25 Hottest Facebook Apps

Popularity: 9% [?]

USD 5000 for enhancing a Google gadget/widget

If you have a gadget/widget in Google gadget directory with average pageview of 3600 per day and more, then you can apply for a grant of USD 5000 from Google for further enhancement. See details.

Popularity: 10% [?]

Finance widget showcase #1

• Forex COT Slideshow
• Yahoo! Finance Badge - pretty widget using Yahoo! Finance data
  
• Ticker Sense finance blog. To turn your blog’s feed into a widget, try Blidget

Popularity: 7% [?]

What is a widget?

Widget is a piece of code or software that can be integrated with/plugged into the widget platform easily to provide extra function(s). Of course it is not surprising software can be extended. However the main advantage of widget is ease of integration. Currently there is two main categories of widgets : desktop widget and web widget. Technically most of web widgets are developed using Javascript or embedded browser plugins. You can find examples of web widget at Widgetbox.

Do you have a blog or website? Want to enhance your site or attract more traffic? Consider these finance widgets

Popularity: 14% [?]