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Make a Facebook app or widget from any web site

WidgetBox
It's really easy to add an RSS feed to your start page or desktop, but we were looking for an easy way to let people add an RSS feed from their favorite sites to their own home pages or social profiles. We came across a really great tool: WidgetBox. Instead of coding our own Flash RSS widget that we could give our visitors to embed on their home pages, we found a ton of cool options for widgetizing lots of existing content.

What's even better, WidgetBox lets you turn any widget-sized HTML web page into an embeddable widget that can be shared with users in a friendly manner. Sadly, these widgets still aren't MySpace-friendly. But the WidgetBox does offer an intriguing wizard for creating Facebook apps out of your widgets.

WidgetBox also offers a very simple but flexible "blidget", an RSS-reading widget with options for size, colors, and presentation. Just type in the URL of your blog and WidgetBox produces a blidget. Check out the one we made for Download Squad.

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