Amazon, Chitika and WidgetBucks are Adsense alternatives. You can monetize your blogs and Web siteswith Amazon, Chitika and WidgetBucks widgets. Chitika and Amazon shopping widgets look good and blend in well. With WidgetBucks, you get paid per click and CPM, and you earn 10 percent of your referrals' earnings the first year. Membership is free.

Widgets From Amazon

The Amazon Associate Section now has many different kinds of widgets you can add to many websites including blogs and social networks. You can make slideshows, favorites widgets, wish lists, searches, links and many other interesting widgets. You also earn up to 10% of the revenue with those widgets. You can put the widgets in your sidebar, in your posts, on your websites and many other places to monetize your blogs and websites.

What are some other kinds of widgets for blogs? You can create your own CoRank Social NewsNetwork with a free CoRank website. People can write news stories, rank them and share websites.You can put CoRank widgets on your blogs with Your Top Stories from your CoRank website. Membership is free.

Blog Widgets, Blidgets And Bligets

There are some websites online where you can create a Blidget with your blog's name, description, RSS Feed and posts. People can get the code for your Blidget and put it on their blogs and websites free. Then you will get more traffic to your blog. You can put your Blidgets on your other blogs.That will help you keep visitors on your blogs.

Where can you get your own Blidgets? You can get your own Blidgets that show your Blog's Name, Feed and Posts at YourMinis.com and WidgetBox.com.

What are some other kinds of widgets for blogs? There are Bumpzee Widgets that show popular postsin your Blog's Community, Visitors and Statistics

Earn Money With Blidgets And Widgets With Snipperoo And PayPerWidget

You can promote your blogs with blidgets on Snipperoo. You can also earn money
for PayPerWidget widgets placed on your blogs and websites.

Snipperoo is a widget directory with panels that display widgets that you can add to your
blogs and websites. You can add your own widgets to the Snipperoo Widget Directory.

Snipperoo also has a new website PayPerWidget. You can monetize your websites withPayPerWidget widgets. You can earn money for having PayPerWidget widgets on your blogs and websites.

You can read more about Blidgets on these websites with posts tagged blidget. You can alsosee blidgets at WidgetBox.com.

Last.fm is a music engine widget that provides custom radio streams for your MySpace pages in addition to other social networks. You can find music from your favorite artists, or the genre and embed the code on your profile page directly from the site.

Web Store Widget

You can add your very own e-store on your myspace page using the web store widget. All you have to do is quickly set up an account, list your items for sale, and grab the code widget code for your page. There is no monthly fee, they charge per transaction.

Any Web Cam

You can use anywebcam to add a live webcam broadcast of yourself. Your friends can see what you are doing when you are online. All you need to do is a webcam and a software which can be downloaded free from the above mentioned site.

Cool Comment

CoolComment allows you to create fancy and animated comments that you can post on your friends or your own page. They even have ready made comments for you to copy and paste.

Show Yourself

Combine all your social networks under one virtual roof. With ShowYourself, you can display all your social media activities, like Digg, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook etc. on one page. It's like a one stop for You!

World Visitor Map

Track visitors from around the world who visit your MySpace page. Every time someone visits your page, a dot is created on the map indicating the location of the visitor.

NY Times Crossword Puzzle

Add a New York Times classic crossword puzzle on your profile. It gets updated every Monday.

txtDrop

TxtDrop is an SMS widget for MySpace that allows your friends to send you text messages directly from your profile. There is no charge to send the SMS and the service is available for both, the US and Canada.

MyPickList

You can use this service to create a list of items that you would recommend to your friends and family. The great thing about this tool is that if someone clicks the links in your list and makes a purchase, you get a commission. Beta 2.0 was released recently.

MySpace News

You can add top news headlines on your profile page with the help of this widget. Good tool for news junkies.

DanaSoft Sign

Surprise your visitors by providing them their system details like their IP address, the operating system they use and the city they live in. You can even customize messages on the banners to say things like, “I know where you live..”

Dizzler

Another cool music and video embed tool, visitors can search for audio and video and play them from the same page.

I am a huge fan of silly little widgets that are generally used to test a person's geekiness or learn “What are your chances of surviving a Zombie Apocalypse” and much more. If you share this passion for the strange and unusual that the Internet has to offer, then you'll surely find some widget listed in this article that will entertain the strange side of your personality.

These tests, quizzes and widgets are intended to be humorous and for entertainment purposes only.

1. Zombie Apocalypse

   “The apocalypse has begun, the dead are walking the earth, and you're knee-deep in zombies. What are your chances of survival?” as the test describes. Are you ready to realize your chances of survival against a Zombie plagued world? If you are, then here is your opportunity to learn your ultimate fate.

2. The 2007 Internet Quiz

   So, you are an Internet nerd that has spent countless hours polishing your blog, trolling social networks or battling dragons is some multi-player online vide game, but “ How much do you know about the Internet?” Take the 2007 Internet Quiz to discover what you really think that you know and what you don't.

3. Body Battery Calculator

   This widget is used to determine how much electricity does your body produce on any given day. The human body is thought to product enough electricity to substitute for a double-A battery, but your body may hold a more powerful electrical charge.

4. Morbid Birthday Facts

   Learn about the darker side of your birthday date with this morbid little widget. Not to spoil the fun on your special day, but with this Internet tool you can find out how many people died on the same day that you are celebrating.

5. The Booze Test

   Perfect for lovers of alcoholic beverages, as this quiz will test your knowledge of popular alcoholic drinks. How many beverages do you think that you can name correctly? This is your chance to let your booze knowledge shine.

6. Personal DNA

   Developed by a team of professional psychologists this test employs innovative answering techniques that allows for increased accuracy into your real personality. Learn new things about yourself and take the personality test, today.

7. Intelligence Test

   Now this is a tough test for anyone who desires a real challenge. In this test, the test taker must decipher a series of number and letter combinations, so to determine what they really mean. It is not a easy test, so beware.

8. Typing Test

   Do you know how fast you can type? If not, then this is a cool little widget to use to measure your wpm.

9. The Office Moron Test

   “If you're a worker, you hate the people you work with, and you know it. Anger lurks under your skin, ready to burst out at any moment and impale a temp or an advertising executive. And now you can become one of these assholes! Admit it, your life is complete” as the test developer describes the quiz. This is a fun test to take that isn't that long.

10. The Insulting Name Generator

    Need another reason to be bullied by your friends, and then use this Internet tool to generate insulting names to use when you are provoked or when you just feel like an ass.

11. The Story Element Database

    This is the perfect Internet tool for writers experiencing a bad case of writer's block. Users can add their story ideas in the database and anyone can use the idea(s) in their stories royal-free.

12. The Horrible Affliction Test

    Imagine if you were stricken as a horrible, noxious affliction that no one would want to be near, and then which type of affliction would you are. Use this widget to find out.

13. The Crappy Little Elf Name Generator

    This is a great little widget to learn your elfish name. In addition, you can learn the elf name of your friends, family and enemies, if you wish.

14. The Compatibility Test

    What if you were to hook up with your best friend, would you be compatible with him/her? This test ask the questions that really matter, so that you don't take the leap into a pool of skin dissolving acid instead of a sea full of love and bliss.

15. The Cadaver Calculator

    So, you have dearly departed, so you have thought, but your loved ones have different plans for your remains. This entertaining Internet widget helps determine if your body is worth more dead or alive. How much money will your body bring in? Yes, it is morbid, but fun.

Things you'll need:

Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client, found here

About 5-10 minutes of your time to set up your e-mail account

If you have a Yahoo! e-mail address and no upgraded service, the Yahoo! Widgets program, found here

AOL Standard (@aol.com, @aim.com, or @netscape.net)

After installing Thunderbird, launch it. It should ask you to set up an e-mail account. Make sure e-mail account is selected and click next. Enter your name and e-mail address and click next. Select IMAP at the top of the page. In the incoming server box, type imap.aim.com (for @aim.com or @netscape.net e-mail addresses) or imap.aol.com (for @aol.com e-mail addresses). In the outgoing server box, type smtp.aim.com (for @aim.com or @netscape.net e-mail addresses) or smtp.aol.com (for @aol.com e-mail addresses). Click next.

From your e-mail address that you typed in earlier, the program will obtain your username, but make sure it is correct before clicking next on this page. Choose your account name; it can be anything. Click next again, and then check to make sure everything is correct before clicking finish.

Unfortunately, the AOL and AIM services require advanced settings, so we're not done yet. Attempting to access your account before this advanced section is complete usually gets you a message from the server stating that you need to use ESMTP, EHLO, and AUTH. On the bar right above the toolbar, click Tools and then Account Settings. To the left, under the account name of the account you created, click Server Settings. To the right, under Security Settings, click “Use secure authentication.” Then, back on the left, go to Outgoing Server (SMTP) and, on the right, click Edit.

A new window should come up; under Security and Authentication in this window, check off User Name and Password and then type in your user name. Make sure “No” is selected under Secure Connection. Finally, click Ok in both windows that were open, and attempt to synchronize your mail. It will ask you for your password at first, but then your mail will be there.

AOL's My eAddress

Follow instructions from the section above, using imap.aol.com, but your user name in all cases is your whole e-mail address. For example, if your e-mail address is Joe@myemails.com, the whole thing is your user name.

Google's G-Mail (@gmail.com)

After installing Thunderbird, launch it. It should ask you to set up an e-mail account. Make sure e-mail account is selected and click next. Enter your name and e-mail address and click next. Select POP at the top of the page, and input pop.gmail.com in the Incoming Server box. For the outgoing server, type smtp.gmail.com in the Outgoing Server box. Click next. From your e-mail address that you typed in earlier, the program will obtain your username, but make sure it is correct before clicking next on this page.

Choose your account name; it can be anything. Click next again, and then check to make sure everything is correct before clicking finish.

Attempt to synchronize your mail, and it will ask you for your password. Type it in and click ok. You will receive all of your mail from that e-mail account.

Yahoo! Upgraded Service (@yahoo.com)

This is only for those who pay to get an enhanced Yahoo! mailbox. See instructions below for regular (free) e-mail accounts.

After installing Thunderbird, launch it. It should ask you to set up an e-mail account. Make sure e-mail account is selected and click next. Enter your name and e-mail address and click next. Select POP at the top of the page, and input pop.mail.yahoo.com in the Incoming Server box. For the outgoing server, type smtp.mail.yahoo.com. Click next. From your e-mail address that you typed in earlier, the program will obtain your username, but make sure it is correct before clicking next on this page. Choose your account name; it can be anything. Click next again, and then check to make sure everything is correct before clicking finish.

There's more to be done. On the bar right above the toolbar, click Tools and then Account Settings. To the left, under the account name of the account you created, click Server Settings. To the right, under Security Settings, click “Use secure authentication” and select SSL under the Use Secure Connection setting. Also, change the port setting above the security settings box to 995. Then, back on the left, go to Outgoing Server (SMTP) and, on the right, click Edit.

A new window should come up; under Security and Authentication in this window, check off User Name and Password and then type in your username. Make sure “SSL” is selected under Secure Connection, and then change the port number in the Settings box to 465. Click ok in both windows. Attempt to synchronize your mail, and it will ask you for your password. Type it in and click ok. You will receive all of your mail from that e-mail account.

Yahoo! Standard Mail (@yahoo.com)

This process will not get your mail in Thunderbird, because Yahoo! standard mail cannot be accessed unless you login to the webmail server at yahoo.com. So, instead, I can save you the trip to the Yahoo! page to see if you have mail by using Yahoo! Widgets.

Install Yahoo! Widgets, and then right click the Widgets icon in the taskbar (it looks like two small gears on a small black background) and select Open Dock. On the right side of your screen, a small black tab should appear; hover your mouse over it to open it up, and then click the plus sign in the upper right hand corner (it should be about the height of your screen after pressing the plus button).

Find the Yahoo! Mail Checker by using the arrows at the bottom of the screen to scroll through the widgets, and then click on it to make it appear on your desktop. Enter your Yahoo! username and password, and it will show you how many new messages you have waiting. Clicking on the number of unread messages opens up your web browser and takes you directly to Yahoo! Mail.

MSN (@msn.com or @hotmail.com)

Sorry, but only the paid Microsoft Live Hotmail subscribers can get their mail from their desktop. Even worse, there is no Yahoo! Widget or Windows Sidebar Gadget to do this job for you. Finally, only Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail can display these messages. But several Yahoo! Widgets are available that will tell you about new messages. Search the (located at Yahoo! Widgets) website to find one you like, because there are several.