Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Widgetbox v1.5 Released

Widgetbox released version 1.5 Friday night.
This release improves the ability of a widget to “go viral”. In particular:

Get It Now. When someone sees a widget out in the wild, like on a blog or MySpace, they can get it right there, without going back to Widgetbox. New and existing widgets get this automatically …

Who’s Behind Our Most Popular Widgets?

Ed just wrote about our five most popular widgets, and now I would like to introduce you to three of the developers behind them. I think it is interesting to consider what motivates developers to build widgets. It tends to be three main forces: to generate traffic, acquire users, and drive transactions. Of …

What Makes a Widget Popular?

Today we want to put our blog spotlight on Widgetbox’s most popular widgets and shed some light on our syndication story. We define popularity by the number of subscriptions a widget has. Our five most popular widgets range from 1,802 to 954 subscribers each as I write this, and those numbers keep going …