I was told about one new plugin through a comment and another through a ping. The first plugin, BlogRush Click Maximizer, allows you to improve your click-through rate. It allows you to control what you want to display in the BlogRush widget. You can even write an alternate, short and catchy title just for BlogRush. You will have total control of what appears over the BlogRush network.

The second plugin, by Stephen Cronin of More Than Scratch the Surface, is as yet unnamed and incomplete. By encapsulating social widgets in iframes, it prevents the display slow downs the widgets inevitably cause. He was inspired to write it by an article from Earl Moore of Meandering Passage. If Stephen can resolve certain issues, this will be the plugin that all WordPress bloggers who display external widgets will want.