As i found out when looking at Andrew Wooldrige’s blog, there seems to be no end to crazy flash widgets originating from web 2.0 businesses which seemingly pop out of nowhere.

Take this Buddy Lab’s widget for example. You can customize your own avatar (based on a fish, dinosaur, pig, or cat), slap some text on, and share it to all of your friends by posting it on your blog. Why didn’t i think of that?!

Another crazy flash widget i found is nicely presented on the MotionPortrait web site. Basically, MotionPortrait seems to be a technology in which you can make freaky interactive portraits, which consist of a person who moves their head to follow your mouse cursor. To bump up the freakishness, the person can also make random head movements and even speak.

Sadly i can’t find an example of MotionPortrait to embed in this post, so you’ll have to go to the MotionPortrait web site yourself to see the technology in all of its freakish glory.

There is also another MotionPicture example i found which instead of a portrait of a real person uses the portrait of the anime character, Haruhi. Thanks to Ramblings of a DarkMirage for pointing this out.

Safe to say, there seems to be no end to crazy flash widgets! :D