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By Chelsey Delaney

Web page making can be fun. Besides busting out your coke-bottle glasses and your metal detector, multi-tasking playing your Wii and WOW, there is an extra nerdy thing you can do. Build a widget.

Widgets, for the uninformed, misinformed, or deformed, are baby chunks of Web code that can be customized to fit on some sect of your site to make it look cool. Possibilities are endless with these things.

Sprout, the newest widgeteer site, “fully bloomed” today. Launched out of Hawaii, the Sprout team mission is “to revolutionize the way social media is built.”

Check it out at: Sproutbuilder.com.

Yet, I believe in make new widgets but keep the old… Here is the gold: Widgetbox.com. And here is my favorite widget on the Widgetbox: Super Mario on your frickin’ Web site toolbar.

Word.