Extend Near-Time Premium with Widgets and Extension

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Make your Near-Time Premium space even more engaging with widgets and extensions. Grab the necessary code from these pre-approved vendors, drop it into a Near-Time page using the "Insert Media" button, and you're done. For even more options, check out the supported widget aggregators listed below.

Calendars and Events
	Google’s Embeddable Calendar helper adjusts the way it will look in Near-Time. This includes selecting a background color, five different sizes, and customized navigation controls.

	30Boxes is a lightweight calendar to organize and share events inside a wiki page. Features include RSS +iCal feeds, a to-do list, contact lists, and status updates.

	Use Upcoming to share events with the world. Get Upcoming badges for your spaces.

Chat and Real-Time
	Meebo me allows people to contact you and see when you are online whenever they visit your site by putting a meebo me chat window right on your own home page.

	Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. It's free to use inside your wiki pages.

Feeds and RSS
	Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to syndicate feeds into Near-Time.

	Feedburner gives you the toolset to determine how many people are subscribed to your feeds, where your web content is being resyndicated, and how you’re feeds compare day-to-day.

	FeedBlendr will grab all the feeds you enter and blend them up into a nice, thick, 'river of news' smoothie. You'll get a URL where you can subscribe to everything all at once.

Forms and Databases
	Icebrrg gives you simple instructions to share your fully-functional web forms anywhere. Your forms are seamlessly molded into the look of your own site.

	Wufoo forms notify you when submissions come in via e-mail or RSS. Wufoo forms can be embedded into your Near-Time wiki or blog for collecting registrations, surveys, or polls.

Maps and Mashups
	Google Maps enables you to add custom maps to your blog or site. Mashups from Google Maps are also used to display cross-sections of information.

	Trippermap.com is a web service that allows you to put a flash based world map on your own website or blog. Trippermap will then automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Trippermap, on your own website.

News and Information
	Yahoo Finance! publishes stock tickers, charts, and news headlines appear on your web site—updated automatically.

	The Forbes.com breaking news widget offers real-time financial markets reporting, focusing on the companies and executives that matter most to you (and your portfolio). A must-have widget for any serious investor.

Polling and Surveys
	PollDaddy is simple and flexible, allowing you to customize our styles to match your website or email campaign. Deliver your poll through flash, direct link, widget or RSS to survey your user’s opinions.

	SurveyGizmo is a creative platform for any marketing, lead generation or research project. Create surveys, landing pages, polls, quizzes, contact forms, ticketing queues and mobile marketing campaigns.

Social Media
	LinkedInABox™ is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.

	A badge is a customizable clip of your Facebook profile that you can share on other web sites like blogs, personal web pages, or forums. You can choose what information to show on your badge.

Videos
	Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you share your photos with others through email and on the web, and upload them into photo albums within Near-Time.

	Use Hipcast for podcasting and video podcasts. As easy as it is to record and publish audio, we simply couldn’t resist bringing video to the table. Now, with a webcam and a high speed internet connection, you can record through your web browser in realtime.

	YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

	Use Google Video to upload and share your video. Make your video "private" to restrict access, them embed the reference code into a Near-Time page.

	Brightcove gives you the freedom to easily find, watch and participate in a broad range of video content—when and where they choose.

	Thousands of free videos on Veoh.com, your internet television network. Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.

Widget Aggregators
	Thousands of widgets can be added to your space with one click. SpringWidgets has a directory of thousands of validated widgets that work within Near-Time blog’s and wikis.

	Widgetbox widget panel lets you drag and drop widgets onto a special panel in your blog. Never deal with widget installation again!