Typepad Launches Widgets. . . including Kosmix!

Typepad, the blogging platform for iPioneer and many others, today released a bunch of Widgets you can add to your sidebar.  They're calling it "Bling for your Blog." Of course, I'm pretty excited that Kosmix has its own widgets included in the mix.  Now, you can add either Health, Travel, or Politics searches to your blog.  Neat stuff!

As a non-technical user of TypePad, I've always had the gripe that adding anything outside of the normal TypePad template is impossibly difficult.  There's a way to add template modules, but God knows I don't have the time to adjust them.  And, once you've created a custom template, you can no longer make configuration tweaks through the TypePad interface.  Now, I can add a Feedburner Chicklet, a couple of my Squidoo Lenses, and who knows what else.  Kudos to TypePad for making it easy on Dumb Marketing Guys like me!   I hope that companies continue to add widgets, since TypePad has released an integration API.  I'd love an easy way to add my Flicker Photos to the sidebar.

Note: I can't figure out how the heck to add my Feedburner Chicklet.  Am I just dumb or is FeedBurner punting?

Comments

[Eric Lunt]

Re: FeedBurner chicklet. It's at the bottom of the "Publicize"/"Chicklet Chooser" page. Only there right now, we'll expand it to the rest of the HTMLy things soon.