What is a Widget?
A widget is a small web application that you can place on your web site or blog, or on various homepages like iGoogle, Yahoo, Facebook, and Netvibes, or even onto the desktop of some operating systems like Vista or MacOS (Leopard).
The easiest way to get started is to click the "Get & Share" button at the bottom of a widget you like, and click on the installation target. You can also click "embed" to get the HTML embed code, and place it anywhere you like. For example, you can paste this embed code right into WordPress. For more help, consult our Widget Tutorial.
All of our widgets are free. Some of them can be customized with whatever set of topics you want, and are available in several sizes.
Featured Widget
Highlights Viewer
This widget delivers the latest 100 Daylife Highlights. Add it to your desktop or iGoogle home page, or your website, to get the top stories of the day as created by our staff of editors.
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Other widgets we think you'll like. Check them out. See if we're right.
Image Widgets
These widgets focus on the visuals -- the latest photos from the most viewed stories of the day.
Flash Image Tracker (160px)
Get high quality images and captions from a user-defined query
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These widgets deliver customizable feeds of the latest news.
Mini-Topic
Get articles, photos, and quotes from one of our topics, or from an arbitrary search phrase.
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Custom News Feed
Get the latest news from your favorite journalists and sources. You can also build your own.
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These widgets display top news and coverage volume for a selection of topics, and reports week-over-week changes in volume. The difference between the various versions of this widget is the selection of topics that it delivers, and whether that selection can be modified.
Custom News Index (160px width)
Get news and stats for your own set of topics or search phrases. Use our simple one-step widget creation form, and get your new widget instantly.
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Custom News Index (200px width)
Get news and stats for your own set of topics or search phrases. Use our simple one-step widget creation form, and get your new widget instantly.
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Custom News Index (wide version)
Get news and stats for your own set of topics or search phrases. Use our simple one-step widget creation form, and get your new widget instantly.
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Newsmaker Index
Get news and stats for the top newsmakers of the day, based on our top newsmaker discovery algorithms.
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These widgets display top news stories for the day, calculated by compiling thousands of news sources accross the web.
Newsmaker Index
Get news and stats for the top newsmakers of the day, based on our top newsmaker discovery algorithms.
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These widgets display top news and coverage specifically for political topics, such as the 2008 US presidential election.
IssueDex
Get news about issues in the 2008 US Presidential Election. For each issue, the total coverage volume over the last seven days, and the previous week, is calculated and compared.
More InfoWidget Builders
You can build your own version of each of these widgets. Note that our other widgets may have simple customization options, such as selecting a search phrase. For these widgets however the data is completely customizable, and the configuration will be preserved when others grab it from you.
Custom News Feed
Get the latest news from your favorite journalists and sources. You can also build your own.
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Newsmaker Index
Get news and stats for the top newsmakers of the day, based on our top newsmaker discovery algorithms.
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Daylife Spinometer (200px width)
This widget uses our opinion and spin scoring algorithms to pull interesting articles from the last few days of news, and then determines the most prominent people mentioned in each article. You can sort them either by the strength and nature of the opinion, by how recent the articles are, or by the name of the person. In short, a quick and easy way to see who is having a bad news day.
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