Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Widgetbox Gives Online Networks New Tools for Creating Custom Widget Galleries

Widgetbox, the world’s first and largest widget community, today announced new features and increased support for its Custom Galleries by Widgetbox. Custom Galleries allow online networks across the web to offer personalized widget options for their users.

Widgetbox Digs Deep with Custom Galleries for Social Networks

Mashable’s Kristen Nicole explains the high points of the Custom Galleries by Widgetbox announcement, saying “Widgetbox is taking a deeper plunge by letting networks better offer personalized widget options for their users on a more integrated level.”

Investors Business Daily’s take on widgets

In this story by Brian Deagan the widget is examined as a marketing phenomenon with Widgetbox CEO Will Price chiming in as an expert on the space:“Movie and TV studios have been aggressive adopters of widgets,” Price said. “Every movie studio and music label has a social media program, and each one has a widget …

Financial Times takes on the widget economy

This story by Richard Waters by Chris Nuttall took on the reality of the “widget economy” and turns to Widgetbox CEO Will Price for clarity.  From the story: “Social media is ahead of the capacity of the advertisers to take advantage of it,” says Mr Price at Widgetbox. The standardised units of advertising and methods …

The SWAT Summit, July 17

Social networks are transforming the way brands and consumers interact. Leading brands and agencies are embracing their potential — are you? The SWAT Summit looks at how agencies and brands can harness the power of social networks. This conference is for anyone who wants to be a leader in the next generation of marketing and …

Widgets and presidential politics

When the presidential primaries were still the hottest topic of the day, ReadWriteWeb’s Josh Catone took a look at how the widget wars were playing out. Data from Widgetbox showed that web widgets from the Obama campaign were far and away the most popular.

Widgetbox’s search prowess

In this Greasy PC post, Widgetbox goes head to head with Bloggers search gadget and comes out on top.

eHow to use a widget to promote my content

Ariana Cherry-Shearer takes a marketer’s view of widgets and their role in promoting content across the web. Her six-step guide focuses on the Widgetbox toolkit.

CMS Wire’s widget-building tutorial

John Conroy tells his readers that building Web widgets is ” free, extremely easy and takes about five minutes to roll out your first creation.” This how-to guide walks through the Widgetbox site complete with video.

Sexy Widget catches up with Widgetbox

Lawrence Coburn had a getting-to-know-you-again chat with Widgetbox CEO Will Price and wrote this update on his Sexy Widget blog.