Top Commentators

Lorna has a Top Commentators Widget that displays a list of the most active commentators (historically) with a link to each one’s blog. See it in action on her blog.

Active Discussions

Jay just sent us the link to his Active Discussions widget. It shows some information about the most recently commented-upon posts.

Matthew Robinson has created a Subscribe2-based plugin that provides a sidebar widget for users of Skippy's Subscribe2 plugin.

Gabbly

A clever widget for adding a Gabbly chat box to your site.

Show coComments

Robert Jorgenson wrote to us about his coComments widget. The screenshot on his site shows a very good-looking widget!

Quick SMS

Do you want your readers flaming you on your cell phone? Now they can with the new text messaging widget from Martin!

MSN Status

The new MSN Status Widget grabs your MSN Messenger status and nickname and shows it in your sidebar. It doesn’t seem to expose your email address, which is what someone would need to know to add you to their contacts and send a message. I suppose that’s good.

SubscribeMe

Here's another piggyback widget. This one augments Semiologic’s Subscribe Me plugin for use as a widget.

Democracy

For a great polling widget, here is a plugin to widgetize Democracy.  This requires Andrew Sutherland’s excellent Democracy plugin.

Brian’s Latest Comments

Carsten wrote a nice alternative to the Recent Comments widget:

I just ported the Binary Blue specific Sidebar Widget, which adds full support for Brian’s Latest Comments, into a general purpose Sidebar Widget.

It may be a while before Brian updates his plugin with a built-in widget.