Add and Embed Google Universal Gadgets Modules to Websites and Blogs
Google has released Google Universal Gadgets, which also known as Google Modules, Google Widgets or Homepage Contents to the general public for use on personal websites and blogs. Google Gadgets are mini applications, sometimes called applets or widgets that perform specific tasks or provide information or as a games. Previously, most of the applets have been restricted for usage on the desktop (Desktop Gadget), Google Desktop, Google Pages, and Google Personalized Homepage (Universal Gadget). Elsewhere at Yahoo! and Microsoft, the gadgets or widgets are also only available for desktop or specific Yahoo! or Microsoft related customized pages.
Google now has a gallery of more than 1220 Google Universal Gadgets, which contains minimal code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a website or blog, with a variety of abilities. Among the functionalities of the gadgets include check weather, get news headlines, play games, miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar, search tool for Wikipedia or Dictionary.com, download smileys, translate with Babelfish and etc.
To embed or add Google Gadgets to your website or blog, search for the gadgets you want at Google Homepage Content Directory. Then click on “Add to your webpage”, and customize gadget’s width, height, border, title and other related options. When done, click on Get Code to locate the HTML source script to insert into your blog or website. For example of Google Universal Gadgets on Wordpress blog, here is the addicting games of Bejewelled and PacMan.
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February 24th, 2008 00:25
i want the embed to google translate …..
December 15th, 2007 18:52
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
December 2nd, 2007 23:38
When opensocial comes alive for real myspace and most other social networks will most likely allow for google gadgets to be implemented in their users profiles or blogposts. Myspace has already said yes to this.
November 14th, 2007 13:05
Myspace won’t allow [iframe] tags.
I put together a hack below.
http://voodoologic45.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-calendar-myspace-hack.html
July 9th, 2007 01:15
Hi
I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don’t have anything to say recently.
Bye
June 26th, 2007 04:15
[...] die man gerne auch in einem Sharepoint Portal (MOSS 2007) benutzen würde. Das geht mit den neuen Google Universal Gadgets extrem extrem einfach. Man wählt in der Google Homepage Directory eines von zur Zeit 1220 Gadgets [...]
November 7th, 2006 07:02
Nice post. I appreciate the heads-up on this terrific product enhancement. I referenced your post at http://blog.swoda.com/blog/2006/11/googles_univers.html
November 5th, 2006 14:09
Hi, I have Google universal Gadget for learning short articles in “Flashcards” format.
From time to time, new articles will be shown on the Google Desktop sidebar to show you new flashcards. I want to have users add my gadget easily preferably with just one click. Anyone knows how to do this? If you do, please let me know.. Admin At WikiQuickFacts Dot Com.
Thanks in advance.
You can find my Google Gadget here:
http://www.wikiquickfacts.com/index.php/Free_Online_Flashcards#Get_our_flashcards_on_Google_Desktop_using_Osmosis_Google_Gadget
October 7th, 2006 01:20
[...] Google Gadgets or more specifically Google Universal Gadgets which are mini-applications that provide users with dynamic content that can be embedded in Web pages with functionalities such as games, weather reports, calculators, currency converters, calendars, and etc, are now available for public use to embed on any websites or blogs. Dashboard widgets are similar to Google Gadgets except that it’s intended for Dashboard of Mac OS X Tiger operating system, while Google Universal Gadget is a web-page based widgets. In order to install and use the Google Gadget on Apple Mac OS X Tiger OS, Google Gadget has to be converted into a Dashboard widget, by using Amnesty Generator, a free utility from Mesa Dynamics. [...]
October 6th, 2006 21:30
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