When adding sharing functionality to widgets there are usually 3 options: Clearspring, Gigya or custom. Assuming you don’t want to go  the custom route, its either Clearspring or Gigya (the companies actually have an almost equal share of the marketing).

clear Clearspring Widget Examples

Gigya is unfortunately not as “cool” as Clearspring, its verdana 11 point type and pixelated buttons don’t have as much appeal to the Web 2.0 crowd.  I often get asked by clients for some good examples of Clearspring widget but since they have only a limited number of widgets in they “featured” gallery (and since some widget, specially those for movies have a limited life span) it usually takes some time to find good examples. Here are examples is some widget categories:

Movies and TV Series Widgets

Bands and Music Artists Widgets

Non-Profit Widgets

Political and Government Widgets

Games and Puzzle Widgets

Sports Widgets