Take a look at that widget over there on the left-hand side of this page; see that? That's Thingfo. This seems like a pretty cool little tool. Basically, Thingfo lets me pull all kinds of content that I define through feeds comprised of usernames, rss feeds, videos, blog posts, and blog comments from sites like Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Delicious, Digg, Blogger, Wordpress, and more.
You can customize the widget's appearance using the Thingfo customization template or your own CSS. You can easily moderate content, removing anything you don't want displayed, and you can track some basic statistics. And it's all free.
I've only just started playing around with Thingfo but it seems like libraries could pull together an awful lot of customer and staff-created online social content in one place on a website. Take a look!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Thanks for the post!
We're pretty proud of our widget system, it's great to see all the uses people put it to. We've had tv shows, bloggers, sports teams... libraries are a new one, but I can see them getting a lot out of it. Also, we can add feeds. Are there any specialized services libraries tend to use?
Let us know if you want any help with the system.
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