Jeff Stieler

Super Widgets let you display the Title, Featured Image, and Excerpt of a selected post or posts in your sidebar.
Narrow down posts to feature by blog (if multisite), post type, or taxonomy.
Show a single post (post/page/custom post type) with the Single Post (Post Type) widget.
Show the most recent post in a selected taxonomy with the Single Post (Taxonomy) widget.
Show the most recent X posts in a selected taxonomy with the Multi Post widget.

Super Widgets

Feature posts in your sidebar.  Select posts by Blog (multisite), individually, by Post Type, or by Tag/Category/Taxonomy.

wpoets

Amit Kumar Singh

pateln54

Featured Today allows you to show featured articles or latest articles from a category that you select. It is very simple to use, just place the ‘featured today widget’ in the right widget area, select the category you want to display. It will show featured article in the same way as featured articles are shown on the linkedin today page.
This plugin is brought to you by <a href="http://wpoets.com/" title="WordPress based development shop" rel="nofollow ugc">WPoets</a> development team.
Features
<ul>
<li>Displays as widget</li>
<li>You can set number of articles to show</li>
<li>You can select the category to use</li>
</ul>

Featured Today

Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.

Super Widgets vs Featured Today