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TypePad launches blog widgets
Today Six Apart launched the TypePad Widget Gallery, which
is full of "blog widgets," or little modules you can add to your TypePad blog's sidebar that do things like
display your Pandora stations, Squidoo lenses, or Rollyo searches. Until now, customizations like this for TypePad were
only possible by hand-editing HTML templates, but widgets can be quickly installed with a few clicks. The gallery isn't
terribly robust just yet, but according to TechCrunch's Ouriel
Ohayon Six Apart is planning on opening up their API to third-party developers. As Ohayon points out, this launch
comes very shortly after the WordPress team announced WordPress
Widgets for Six Apart's primary free competitor.
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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penginkun said 7:05PM on 3-30-2006
Allow me to demonstrate my utter ignorance by saying: "Squidoo? The HELL?"
Is it just me, or are some of these "Web 2.0" sites sporting absolutely stupid monikers?
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