Six Apart Does Widgets

Posted by: Heather Green on March 30

Six Apart, the startup behind the Movable Type and TypePad blog blogging software and service, is dishing up widgets. It’s pulled together a directory of 33 free widgets, already ready to go from companies including music service Pandora and Weatherbug. And it’s making public the APIs that it developed over the pas six weeks so that anyone can build a widget for TypePad blogs.

It make a ton of sense for Six Apart to do this. Widgets help bloggers liven up their blogs. And they help companies creating the widgets market themselves and reach broader audiences through a type of syndication.

These widgets are exactly like the ones that Apple pionnered—little bits of interactive code that can be easily dropped into any blog and can offer features like job searching or games.

With the Pandora widget, for instance, you can share use the widge to share the Pandora stations you’re listening to or your favorite songs.

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