Now, the weekend has come and gone and the Twitter developers have plopped a Lists Widget into our laps for us to play with on our sites and blogs. Here’s what it looks like.

Basically, it works in the same way as other Twitter widgets except instead of showing the tweets of just one person is shows the tweets of everyone who is in that list. I can see this being a massive hit in the blogosphere because building community and adding new features to blogs are two of the most important things for a blogger to consider – well the list widget hits the nail on the head.

I tested it out and while it looks good and gets the job done the widget can be a little slow or sluggish but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s only out a single day. I’m sure the developers are on to it – they’ve had enough practice to know what to do when something is down, broken, sluggish or ‘over capacity’.

Get the Twitter lists widget for your blog right here.

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The installation process it’s quite simple, just uploaded to your current server and modify the configuration files with your Twitter account. Since the code is based in PHP and AJAX you will be able to use it in almost any platform, including WordPress of course.

The configuration file is named PtwiX_reader.php and you’ll only need to edit these lines:

$username=”yourtwitterusername”;
$password=”yourtwitterpassword”;
$url_path=”http://www.mysite.com/ptwix/”;
$cache_folder=”/var/www/examplesite/ptwix/cache/”;

You also have three different themes to choose or even design one of your own. Here’s a demo of the script working and a simple procedure about how to install it.

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The company based in Switzerland has launched a new desktop program that allows you view just about everything that you can think of in the form of handy little desktop widgets. One of the best things I noticed about Sobees is the Sync feature. You sign in when you first launch the program on you PC and then it stays open for good until you close it. But, if you go on another PC that has Sobees and sign in it will sync all of your feeds, widgets and sticky notes to that PC until you sign out. This is great if you’re away from the office but need your news feeds, e-mails and widgets in one place. It’s also a feature the other companies have overlooked completely.

Another thing that I liked was how customizable it all was. As you can see from the screenshot it’s very attractive to the eye and you can shift and shape things to suite your needs. The colours and the themes are great. However, if you go extreme on this front it will slow down considerably.

The widgets are extensive in number. I enjoyed reading news whilst twittering about it without ever opening a browser. There are tons for download but many of these are very specific so don’t expect a library of useful widgets.

In total, it’s much better than Windows Sidebar and the other alternatives out there.

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