blidget
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- Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt
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blidget (plural blidgets)
- (slang, Internet) In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.
- 2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC:
- Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.
- 2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal:
- In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.
- 2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:
- Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blidget.