Just cut and paste the html into a block of your choice (center of frontpage seems to work the best. Modify the settings.xml data to reflect what you want to see and that it.
these are free apps from Tufat.com
I have the live stock ticker on my site if you want to know what it looks like.
www.americasforum.org
Note: My forum is politically charged, if this offends you I would suggest you not go there.
Its not about right or left its about right and wrong.