How can I create a content widget generator?

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Published on 2012-10-21T17:25:21Z Indexed on 2012/10/21 23:20 UTC
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Sites like Buzzfeed offer widgets (Javascript, PHP, WordPress, etc.) for syndicating their content on other sites. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about creating/implementing some kind of interactive widget generator that gives users options for customizing their widget? I assume this would require RSS.

Check out the Buzzfeed generator to see what I mean http://www.buzzfeed.com/network/widget

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