I know, some people get a little infuriated by experimentation. It tends to disrupt the orderly flow of things. I love experimentation. Things get a little messy, but every now and then, something beautiful results.

I am experimenting with Facebook Connect tonight. (Hey, what can I say, it keeps me out of the bars.) I am embedding a live stream widget in this post. Let’s see what happens.

There are so many widgets you can add to your site these days. Here is an interesting one. GeoVisitors is a tool from DigitalPoint.com that reveals where visitors to your site are coming from. Add the code to your site and you will end up with a button that looks like this:

Click on it and you will see a world map with balloons showing where in the world your visitors are coming from within the past 24 hours, like this:

You and your site visitors can see roughly what locations throughout the world have been to your site. This isn’t exactly an analytics tool, but just a visual way to add a little interactive fun to your site. Too many widgets can slow down your site considerably, and that is definitely undesirable, but Geovisitors should not be a problem, especially for smaller sites.

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