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individual, we have extended the functionality of many of these widgets to allow fuller control over
what is shown and how it is presented. For instance, rather than simply showing a user’s own posts, a
blog widget can show selected individual posts belonging to friends and shared group members, in
different sort order, with its own title, with varying-sized snippets of the original post, displayed
differently. In effect, this offers a kind of desk-top publishing tool for the social web, drawing dynamic
and/or static content from across the social site and beyond into different pages for different
purposes.
Figure 2: onfigured widget
Figure 3: Widget configuration options
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