Blog Widgets, Gadgets and Add-ons (II)

This is a continued list of Blog Widgets, Gadgets and Add-ons which you can include into your Blog. If you have not read the first part, please check out Blog Widgets, Gadgets and Add-ons (I). You may also consider having a chatbox, shoutbox or message board on your Blog. We ended with AuctionAds which can earn you some extra revenue. We begin this second part with a fun widget that you can have.

Punkymoods

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” ... Blaise Pascal



If you are writing an online diary about personal events, you may want to let your readers know at a glance your mood at the current moment. Punkymoods does just that. Get a free account and add their code to your Blog. Whenever your mood changes, login to their site and set the mood. The image or emoticon displayed on your Blog will be automatically changed to show your current mood.

ChipIn



Organizing a fund-raising event and want readers to contribute to the funds?ChipIn provides a widget which gives an up-to-date status and a secure means of collecting the funds.

Clustrmaps

Most of us would have used statcounters to keep track of the number of visitors to our sites. Numbers alone may be a little stale, and if you like something more graphic which shows the locations of your visitors, open a free account with Clustrmaps.



Go to Admin page and copy the HTML code into your Blog. Their service is free if you have not more than 2,500 visitors per day.

Answers.com



Do you always have to explain terms and jargons used on your site? Incorporate some free Answer tools like AnswerTips and AnswerBoxes from Answers.com for your visitors to obtain instant answers to key words and queries.

Blufr



Also powered by Answers.com is the widget by Blufr where viewers are posed a question which could either be true or a bluff. [Update: Service is no longer available and link is therefore removed.]

TheFreeDictionary

This site TheFreeDictionary has more free tools for you to choose from. You could have a simple dictionary lookup box.



You could also consider other useful resources like Word of the Day, Article of the Day, This day in history, Today's birthday, In the News, Quote of the Day and games like Spelling Bee, Match Up and Hangman.



LibraryThing



If you have a collection of books, you might find the service at LibraryThing useful. Here, you can create an online catalog of your books and be connected to people around the world who share similar collections. You can place a widget on your Blog to let people know what you are reading.

Vizu



Creating a blog poll to collect opinions from your readers has never been easier. With Vizu you can create a poll using customized templates and insert the polling widget into your Blog. If you'd like extra income, they will pay you to host selected webpolls through their Vizu Answers scheme.

WeLoveWidgets



Teaming up with Astrologer.com, WeLoveWidgets provides a horoscope widget that updates itself and lets you see who you are compatible with.

Technorati



This site was discussed in our article on Submit Blog to Blog Directories (I). Check out the blog widgets offered by Technorati too. You can have widgets displaying the top tags of your Blog and number of Links, or try their new Authority widget to show your status as an authoritative blogger. Again, this is based on the number of blogs linking to you.