There are two competing ways of doing this quickly and easily, both use Flash widgets. We'll look at the application using yourminis. Go to http://www.yourminis.com/ where you can find a widget that you like. You can use the editor to edit the size and shape of your Widget and what content will be fed into it. Next, go to the Global Configuration for your Joomla Admin account and change the editor type from the default “Editor tinyMCE” to “No Editor.” Apply and Close the setting. Now you can add any kind of Flash widget you'd like as in any combination of DHTML. Then add the code directly to your article as seen below.
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