Monthly Archive for December, 2006

Widgetbox Delivers Holiday Gift: Makes First Web Widget Analytics Available

Syndication Metrics Now Available for Any Registered Widget at Widgetbox
San Francisco, CA, December 21, 2006 — Widgetbox™, (www.widgetbox.com), the leading marketplace for web widgets, made available today the first commercial analytics system for web widgets, called Widgetbox Syndication Metrics. These metrics, for the first time, allow widget developers to track and analyze the syndication performance …

Why Widget Metrics Matter

People sometimes look at our website and assume that Widgetbox is just a directory or aggregator of web widgets. That’s really just scratching the surface of what we offer. Our mission is to be the leading marketplace for web widgets, and to make the marketplace truly work, we also provide a robust infrastructure for widget …

Measuring the Widget Economy

You might have noticed that the front door of www.widgetbox.com now shows several key statistics that every blogger and widget developer will want to keep their eyes on.

The number of widgets served up to blogs since Widgetbox began operations.

The month-on-month increase of the …

Widgetbox v1.2 Released

Widgetbox released version 1.2 tonight.
This release focuses on giving developers the tools they need to understand how their widget is being used out there on the wild wooly internet. We call this Widget Syndication Metrics. It takes the form of a powerful, easy to use analytics dashboard for widget developers that is free …

Color Picker Can Now Leave Off The #

Widget developers, your wildest fantasies have been realized!
When building your widget’s config screen, the color picker data type now has an option to return the value without the #. For example, if the user chooses white it can return as “#FFFFFF” or “FFFFFF”.
This was requested for cases where you’re passing the color as part …