Joost is inviting developers to it’s first developer days. The event is geared towards developers with at least a basic knowledge of html and JavaScript.

• A (free) lunch
• Presentations, an introduction to building widgets, and an update on widget features in the new release
• A preview of the first commercial Joost widget
• Developer workshops
• Finish up with a drink or two and freebies

London (Covent Garden) 1pm to 6pm Friday 16th November
Amsterdam (Central location) 1pm to 6pm Saturday 1st December
New York (Financial District) 12pm to 5pm Friday 7th December

If anyone is interested please RSVP dev-workshop [at] joost [dot] com.

New National Geographic News widget powered by Clearspring.

Amazon launched a six new widgets today adding to the ways you can promote Amazon products and I guess earn commissions. The “Unboxed Videos” widget looks pretty cool.

AdaptiveBlue have recently launched a new widget for showcasing book collections.

Each widget instance showcases a book collection by author.

Samples available in their Book Widget Gallery.

Digg recently launched a new Widget for displaying Digg news on your site. Plenty of the standard options for customizing size, colors, borders, etc.

Fresh from the brain of the same dude who brought us LineBuzz.com is the just launched quickie widget startup FEEDJIT.com. They’ve gone from idea to logging traffic in 10.5 hours.

Add the JavaScript one-liner to your blog and instantly start geo tracking incoming links.

From the same people that brought us GAS-COST.NET comes GOLD-QUOTE.NET.

Tracks the real-time price of Gold.

WhoLinked shows the sites linking to you in real-time. Simple widget or pluggins for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, etc.

Super popular with the Facebook crowd, RockYou recently released a flash based horoscope widget.

A new widget from GAS-COST.NET provides a summary of the average nationwide price of gas in real time.

Especially empowering widget for all those whiners in America commenting bitching about the price of gas right now.

What GAS-COST.NET needs to do is provide an API, then someone can build a tool to monitor and push out Twitter updates to all of us when the price changes.

It would actually be cool to see the geo location of the highest and lowest prices. Not sure if that kind of data is available though. Just a thought.