Widgets are amongst the few new phenomenon hitting the web making its presence loud and clear. Widgets are having viral effect which comes from its plug and play feature. They are emerging as an excellent  promotional tool let it be on personal or business domains. Many software professionals are providing cool tools to create own widgets and for their customization as per the business needs. Performance boosters in online and offline business is the potential.

Widgets are making space for themselves in your site pages. They are easy to create and customize small web tools providing informations on stock news, weather reports, top products price, financial and travel information ,mapping and many more. You just need to know what you need to display in the special section of your blogs, sites, articles and they are there. There are many social community, business widgets, personal interest widgets present on the web.

Widgets just are not informative rather they bring business to your sites too. The most famous revenue generating widgets are ads links tools like google adsense, textLinks, amazon widgets and many more are present. The big players have already been hitting money with widgets potential.Open any site and you will surely be finding widgets in there. Sometimes providing information, sometimes promoting products. You can see them in terms of word clouds, banners or even some images/flash/adsense on the page. The web technology has taken a leap by providing the control of the widgets to its actual user. You can create and customize it according to your need and they don’t require you to be technical pro to use the web tool. They are most handy and are in ready to embed parts let it be a script or as an iframe.

You can send greetings, embed video you like and want to share, you want to show the world your site visitors and many more. The flight is undefined and we can not just fathom how vast impact it can bring.

Happy widgeting…

Dhingana, a social networking portal around musical entertainment has added a Community IM within its portal similar to facebook, visible at bottom. This feature will allow users to chat in real time with their friends on Dhingana. Apparently, its a first Indian social platform to launch the community IM feature in first week of May in partnership with Meebo.

Apart from chatting with other users on Dhingana, the Community IM feature also allows users to chat with all their friends from a variety of other networks like Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail etc. Users can also share music albums, songs, playlists, videos with their friends with just 2 clicks using the nice built in “share” feature.

Meebo with its Community IM! Meebo is partnering with leading online communities such as Piczo, Flixter and yaari.com to deliver free, integrated, Web-based instant messaging (IM) to users. Meebo Community IM is designed to facilitate live interaction and real-time conversations between members of online communities such as social media, gaming, and blog networks.

Although when I tried it personally over Firefox/ Vista, I had problem in signing in and status shows as offline. I believe though that its quite good mixture of IM along with music, songs and playlist sharing.

You might have seen and using widgets that helps you to make your websites go viral such as Addtoany.com, addthis.com, sharethis.com redirecting visitors of your site to spread your webpage across the web whether its on social networking, community websites or emails.

However new widget of similar profile has questioned security of websites where such widgets are embedded and prone to breakage, however CrowdSend, a new widget service claim to be most secure, extensive and easiest to use than any other existing sharable widget in the market.

Also unlike to any other sharable widget for promoting content of websites or blog the widgets are not placed in top or bottom of article/post but left-most, right-most or bottom-most of any webpage quite similar to the widget getsatisfaction.com feedback widget.

CrowdSend has 44 boomkaring services and emails to promote content of websites, blogs or myspace pages and they are even more customizable to some extent than other ones in its own niche. Crowdsend also provide developer library yet not free, to customize it to even more extent and use as desired.

Qoof, a video commerce platform company has introduces a Video Widget solution for all those ecommerce websites, companies that perform buying, purchasing, shopping cart actions. The widget is flash-based embeddable video presentation that provide all product information, consumer communications, and purchase steps are also conducted using the widget only.

Qoof Widget is the first customized video commerce widget that work towards a sales & revenue. Along with ecommerce websites it is also a video solution for the affiliate industry, which affiliates can use as embeddable videos which is more informative and thus increase their commissions instead of just text and banner ads.

The company apparently claimed to reduced fraudulent click-throughs unlike to other popular ad systems with full integration with back-end systems.

In addition to this, the widget have prominent features such as detailed historical and real time reporting, click to call via VOIP, Skype, land line, and chat, text reviews/ comments, post to publisher site, share and print.

Moreover, for customized look of widget Qoof also provide features such as lead generation through online forms, surveys with check and text boxes, consumer feedback and customer relations. Qoof has been selected for the final round in the Embeddable Widgets Category of Mashable’s Open Web Awards.