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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 …
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 …
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!
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 …
