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Google Gadgets on Blogger – Bigger News Than You Might Think

add gadgetBlogger in Draft (the “preview” version of Blogger) announced the addition of Google gadgets to Blogger sidebars. This might not seem like a big deal, after all, you could already add Google gadgets to blogs right?

The difference is how they get there.

When you click on “Add a Page Element” you get a few new choices in the draft version of Blogger, the one we are talking about today is “Add Gadget”. Clicking it results in a Google gadget directory showing up.

Blogger gadget directory

After choosing a gadget, you get a limited ability to configure it’s size and the gadget preferences. Then you click a button and they are on your blog.

Sidebar gadgets

There are several interesting things that change as of this announcement.

It will literally change the way gadgets are made and promoted.

I am about to go to sleep and I am too tired to go into that right now. But there are some interesting things afoot. Very interesting stuff, but I will talk about that in a later post.

I will give you a hint for one of them… Look at the Gadget in the screen shot, it is the Official YouTube gadget… notice anything different? :)

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Google Gadgets – Size Does Matter
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5 Responses to “Google Gadgets on Blogger – Bigger News Than You Might Think”

  1. Fred Schebesta Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    I am still using the old school templates because I can’t publish the new style blogs to external addresses without using the old templates?

  2. Richard Rinyai Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

    I personally think that this will help people that are not to well versed in programming, such as XML coding. I am just dipping my feet into this area and anything that makes our lives easier, really helps.

    Thanks,

    Richard Rinyai

  3. pat Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    I do not understand you question, which template are you talking about?

  4. Askmoney.blogspot Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    I want to add Goolge Gadgets to my Blog of http://www.askmoney.blogspot.com.

    I have some tricks to add Google Gadgets. But I didn’t.

    Please try to Help me.

    Please mail the solution to gbharikrishna@gmail.com

  5. sandrar Says:
    September 10th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

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