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How is Gates Foundation creating their

The community page of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pages/community.aspx) displays several twitter and facebook widgets, but I haven't been able to find those specific widgets on Facebook or Twitter.

There is also a display by a 3rd party system which appears to be "Echo" (http://aboutecho.com) so I'm guessing that's just a pay service plugin.

Can anyone help me understand how the Twitter and Facebook widgets were created and customized? They look so nice it would be great to be able to incorporate them into our site.

Thanks experts!

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Carl Tawn

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rascal

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I'm not sure I understand the connection - when I visit the links you refer to above and create the widgets, I cannot format the look so that it is like the Gates Foundation look. The resulting widgets are just simple thin lined boxes and don't have the additional display features.

For example, on the Gates Foundation page, the Twitter feed has a "What's Happening" callout box with the twitter account name referenced beneath it, and is styled with that blue bar along the top, etc. How is this achieved?
And the Facebook box on the bottom of the page, has the bold blue bars along the top and bottom - again, the facebook widget page I visited didn't offer options for this type of formatting.
What am I missing here?

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Thanks all, I guess it's time to dive into the API :)