Widgetbox recently rolled out two features of interest to Flash developers:
No-paste installation into MySpace.com, a popular social networking site.
You can adapt your widget so that it can link out of MySpace.
No-Paste Installation Into MySpace
Widgetbox lets users install Flash widgets to their MySpace profile without cutting and pasting. Our MySpace installation screen lets the …
If you’re one of the many thousands of people that have registered a blidget with Widgetbox, you might like to know that we’ve been busy making your blidget even better.
In last Friday’s release (Feb 23) we:
Improved rendering times for blogs with very large RSS feeds.
Added support for a few new variants of feeds.
Improved our rendering …
On Friday the 23rd, Widgetbox released version 1.4, our fourth major release since going public last October.
The most notable new feature is tag-based browsing. When you click in a category, you see a tag cloud with the most popular terms within that category:
We added tagging because the catalog of widgets had …
As it turns out, we think they have a lot in common. So much so, that we are building the “Amazon†of web widgets. What’s driving this is the value of the network. When you’re building a syndication service, point-to-point or one-off sales and deals are okay but they don’t really …
Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us we hope you’re prepared. Here’s a handy checklist:
Reservations at a romantic restaurant.
Box of candy / flowers / poetry / ring.
A blog decorated with one of Widgetbox’s delicious Valentine widgets.
Get your blog ready with one of our Valentine’s Day widgets!
Our thanks goes to Feedster, blog search leader, for putting the Widgetbox blidget badge on their front door. Now all of the thousands of bloggers coming to Feedster can discover the easiest way to turn their blog into a widget.
Feedster adds a lot of value to the blogosphere, and especially their excellent …
We’ve seen a great response since we introduced blidgets. In just a few days more than a thousand bloggers have turned their blogs into widgets. Thousands of people have subscribed to these blidgets, installing them on their own blogs and web pages and MySpace profiles. The owners of these blidgets are tracking …
Just a note that our widget gallery has been intermittently slow for the last few days because of the unexpectedly huge number of new widgets due to our new blidget feature.
We have a fix and are in the final phases of extensively testing it. It should go live this afternoon and restore performance …
Blogger.com and all the blogs on BlogSpot have had intermittant problems all morning and are completely down right now — hitting Blogger’s front door variously gives a 502 error or a “down for maintenance” message.
This has exposed a flaw in our new Blidgets feature: bad error reporting. When people try to create a Blidget …
