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Sharing recent tweets with blog readers.

MessageDance FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player

After Myspace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google Announces FriendConnect.

Two weeks, three announcements and wild west world of social networking is all topsy turvy.  Following Myspace and Facebook announcement, Google today gave a preview announcement of FriendConnect. Goals of FriendConnect are:

Drive traffic: people who discover interesting sites can bring their friends with them, and can opt-in to publish their activities on those sites back [...]

Google - World’s biggest widget company

And if you think my title was pure attention-grabbing stunt then let’s first define what widget really means. As per Wikipedia -
In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish [...]