If you want to see what can be done with widgets, take a look at LabPixies. They have a ton of great widgets and they have recently added three more that are terrific. For now these only run on Google, but I imagine they will run on other platforms soon enough. In addition, each widget has an embed code. I am embedding the code here so you can play around with them here. (RSS readers will need to click through)
Odeo Podcasts gives you the ability to listen to millions of podcasts from right on your personalized home page. Using this widget, you can browse different categories and play episodes. (I can't get the embed code to work properly here but it does work on Google)
Flickr Slides brings beautiful images in a slide show format to your personalized home page. You can set it up to monitor a specific tag.
TechBlogs is simply a widget that streams headlines from TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Slashdot and Engadget in one mini window.
For more, visit the LabPixies site. There's lots to choose from.
