You can create a Spinlets™ widget from any of the following:

• Flash (SWF) file
• JavaScript code
• HTML code
• Google Gadget
• Image file
• RSS feed
• Web page

You can use any of the following methods to distribute your Spinlets™ widgets:

• Post to various social networking, blogging, or other Web sites. To see the complete list of supported sites, click on My Spinlets, click the Distribute button for any of your widgets, and choose Post/Share. If you do not see a site that you want to post your Spinlets™ widget to, or if you want to post it on your own Web site, choose Get Code, copy the generated JavaScript code, and paste it in accordance with the Web site’s requirements.
• Email it to someone. Click on My Spinlets, click the Distribute button for the desired Spinlets™ widget, choose Post/Share, and scroll down to use the "Share your Spinlets with your friends" tool.
• If you develop Facebook Applications, you can post it as a Facebook App. Click on My Spinlets, click the Distribute button for the desired Spinlets™ widget, and choose Facebook App.
• Post it to the Google Gadgets or Live Gadgets galleries. Click on My Spinlets, click the Distribute button for the desired Spinlets™ widget, and choose Galleries. Bear in mind that it will take several days for your widget to appear in these galleries.

You can also download and install your Spinlets™ widget on your computer as a Yahoo! Widget.

Yes, for users of Yahoo! Widgets.

Yes. You can use the In-Widget API to include code in your Flash project for this purpose. See the In-Widget API for details.

You can specify—and change, whenever you want—the parameters that are passed to your Flash, HTML, or JavaScript Spinlets™ widgets. To specify the parameters and values, click on My Spinlets, click the Edit button for the desired Spinlets™ widget, and click Edit in the "Spinlets Parameter" section. The parameters are stored on the SpinletsLab server and passed to your widget whenever it is invoked.

Context parameters supply information, particular to a given placement of your widget, back to your widget server. Your widget server can use this information to make smart decisions about how to serve the widget at load time.
For a simplistic example, you could choose to pass the _sl_ptv parameter back to your widget server. This parameter indicates how many times this particular end user has viewed this placement of your widget. At load time, your widget could include a note that says "You have viewed this widget __ times," filling in the blank with the number from the _sl_ptv parameter.
To use context parameters, click on My Spinlets, click the Edit button for the desired Spinlets™ widget, and click Edit in the "Context Parameter" section. You can then choose which context parameters you want to pass to your widget server.