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Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:35 Written by Erik Lembke

First of all I'd like to say NO!... not yet another widget provider. In the thick jungle of widgets (or also called gadgets) we have to filter out the web-based ones. And after this please divide the "toys" from the utilities. Now there'll be precious few of the millions before. But now tell me which of these do not require a continous care? Not much I think.

The first step to our own widgets were made by my desire to have a glossary of technical words with links to Wikipedia.org or directly to related sites. The problem was my laziness to create and administer this list. What about dynamically detect important words and automatically link pages to them? Impossible? No, the keyword is: Webservices!

The 3 important basics are...

• NO need of programming skills (you can also customize with javascript)
• NO server-side requirements of technologies (PHP, ASP, JSP, ...)
• NO need of additional disk space for files

and for sure: 100% free!

You just need to register to get the required "U8 access key" which allows you to run widgets from registered hosts. Until now we released our new portal U8 web widgets with currently 4 published widgets.

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unicMarker

This widget bookmarks the current website on the selected portal.

Features

• 30 popular bookmark portals
• No negative PageRank because of links inside of Flash
• customizable title and background

unicSlider

This widget detects important words on a website and displays related images.

Features

• Definable Flickr source: User or group id
• Keyword tags
• Black-/Whitelist for words
• 13 transition effects and slideshow timer
• customizable title, background and font colors

unicTagger

This widget detects important words on a website and scans for related links.

Features

• Definable formats: * (any), PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC, RSS, TXT
• Configurable language
• Isolate results to specific domains.
• Black-/Whitelist for words
• customizable title, background and font colors

unicWorker

This widget searches, converts and translates your website.

Features

• Search site contents
• Display site's PageRank
• Translate site into 6 different languages
• Create PDFs from displayed sites on-the-fly
• customizable title, background and font colors