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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: June 25, 2008
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How to build your own Seesmic widget



Widgets are cool, personalized widgets are better. Last week I did a screencast on how to build a widget for your blog in Sprout Builder. For this post I set up a Seesmic widget, complete with customized background, layout, support for threads, and even built in recording so your users can respond to your videos where ever you are showing the widget.

The other thing to note that I learned this week: Sprout Builder now offers a “pro account” that means you don’t have to show the Sprout bar underneath each widget. It’s free at the moment with a charge likely in the future. I’ve opted to keep the bar, but it’s another compelling reason to give Sprout Builder a shot.

The widget I designed in about 5 minutes on the video, below.












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7 Archived Responses to “ How to build your own Seesmic widget ”

  1. Chris Qie
    Jun 25, 2008

    Cool, usefull post.
    The wigets cross network between defferent websites,platforms,devices and clients,except languages.I hope someday the problem of languages will be ok.

  2. Rowan
    Jun 25, 2008

    Very useful! What software do you use for your screencasts? Cheers.

  3. John
    Jun 25, 2008

    I do not know what screencast tool Duncan used, but one very easy to use and free screencast tool is utipu.com. It is intended for ad-hoc screencast and sharing.

  4. John
    Jun 25, 2008

    Very cool! SproutBuilder is a very useful tool. Great demo.

  5. Duncan Riley
    Jun 25, 2008

    Good stuff Bryce

  6. bdude
    Jun 25, 2008

    Thanks for the positive support :)

  7. Charly
    Jan 16, 2009

    very nice Demo