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.

tepelstreel

The Featured Post Widget is a fully customizable widget, that displays a single post. You can decide, whether or not the post thumbnail is displayed, whether the post title is above or beneath the thumbnail and a couple of more things. And of course, you can style the widget individually.

Featured Post Widget

With the Featured Post Widget you can put a certain post in the focus and style it differently.

Super Widgets vs Featured Post Widget