Caching question

[eluser]Nick_MyShuitings[/eluser]
For dinky little widgets like that, I usually call them in using AJAX. It allows you to quickly and completely cache the entire view using even default frontend caching, and the ajax quickly pings a controller method and gets the count and updates the html. That was my old way of doing it, I'm very much liking what bubbafoley is suggesting above, and think I'll try it with my memcached setup.