Our free and easy-to-use widget tool brings the vibrancy of streaming customized results to any website or blog. The widget is based on Collecta’s leading platform that brings together real-time content from a network of more than 10 million social media and established news sites.
Your streaming, real-time widget can be created in seconds. Simply go to http://widget.collecta.com and enter the desired search term(s) — whether it’s ‘Haiti’ or ‘Haiti Red Cross’, ‘taylor swift’ or ‘NBA all-star.’ Then grab the code and paste it anywhere to instantly liven up a site or blog with real-time content.
While there you can also look at some example widgets to grab for yourself or help you with your ideas. Examples there carry public postings about the Lost season premiere, about the upcoming Big Game between the Colts and the Saints, and about South by Southwest (SXSW). Or you can check some examples of other sites that are using the Collecta widget right now.
MySpace Breaking News, BlueIon, TheTofu, Egronomixpr, Future of Money, Afraid Of Sharks
Additional instructions.
* To add Collecta to your WordPress.org (Self Hosted) blog, use our WordPress widget plugin.
* To add Collecta results to any web page using an iFrame, go to http://widget.collecta.com and follow the instructions below.
Step 1 – Pick your search terms. Test some different combinations of terms to find the ones that give the best results for you. The same operators that work on Collecta.com will work here. This blog post has some details on search operators.
Step 2 – Decide if you want to add any customization to your widget. We make the widget easy to size and with a transparent background so it’s easy to use on most sites, or we allow you to apply your own custom CSS. You will need to visit this page for more info on the elements used for your CSS.
Step 3 – Click “Build Widget” and check out the preview, copy the code from the “Grab the code” box and paste it into your blog or site. Any site that supports an iFrame should support the Collecta widget. Voila, Collecta live results for your query streaming updates in real time.
Most browsers limit the maximum number of connections to the same domain from a single page. Therefore if you put too many widgets in the same web page, they will not receive real-time updates properly. This is a browser limit that varies between browsers, not a Collecta limit.
Feel free to drop us a line (to help @ collecta dot com) and let us know where you are using the Collecta widget.
January 26, 2010 at 1:36 pm
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January 26, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Thank you for contacting me. I would love to have you give me a phone call and help me get the widgets going for my hubpages. Please feel free to call me if you can walk me through the process over the phone.
Thank you and warm wishes,
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January 27, 2010 at 11:50 am
We can help you get set up. Just email help @ collecta dot com with your questions.
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