& i was just getting the hang of that on Blogger!

altho the rigamaroll & frustration of “simply” adding links to my blog template was beyond belief hence their “stinky linky’s” handle & by no means any offence to thee cool peeps i’ve started linking too!!

why in gods name would Blogger even offer a template that didn’t even have a section for Links or a BlogRoll??

that seems like something that should just be a given!

what Typepad & Wordpress are doing to make these Cool Widgets added as easily as possible to Everybody’s Blogs is to be Highly applauded!

Bravo!! ;))

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Techcruch
reports Typepad is about to launch
widgets for their blogs….

http://www.typosphere.org/

Right now we want to make sure the experience is perfectly smooth as we launch the new feature, and that there’s no concerns about reliability or security with the widgets. We’ve had open APIs for TypeLists and creating posts for years, and our Atom support is completely unfettered (including for creating sidebar Notes) so there’s plenty of options if you want to send data into TypePad without going through the review process that we have in place right now.

“Seems the sort of people who may want to use widgets are the sort of people who will have gone to Advanced Templates - which allows you to add widgets anyway (albeit in the raw html).”

Most of our users who are on advanced templates are comfortable enough with HTML that they feel like they’d do this sort of integration themselves, but by all means we hope users who only went to advanced templates to add this sort of functionality will be able to use widgets instead and not have to much with code.

Basically, the milestone here is about being open enough to have dozens of partners contributing widgets; TypePad’s always had the ability to drag and drop simple sidebar elements like a list of your recent posts. Those things have been around for years — much more interesting is connecting to all the other services and sites you use, and that’s frankly what I’m most excited about.

Typepad, the blogging platform for iPioneer and many others, today released a bunch of Widgets you can add to your sidebar. They’re calling it Bling for your Blog. Of course, I’m pretty excited that Kosmix has its own widgets included…

The so what is making it one click easy to incorporate vSocial User Badges into TypePad blogs (in the sidebar). Previously, you had to be comfortable creating custom TypeLists. Here is a link to the vSocial User Badge description in…