Widgetbox

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 user choose what part of MySpace to install the widget to:

This is for all Flash widgets, even ones that already exist in Widgetbox.

Linking out of MySpace

Adapting your widget to be able to link out of MySpace is a short and sweet process. A MySpace link-enabled widget is wrapped with two “softkey” buttons, similar to cell phones softkeys. Here’s what it looks like:

Normal Widget

With Softkeys

Link Selected

These softkeys only show up when the user installs on MySpace. Everywhere else, the widget appears normally.

You can learn more about this and the rest of Widgetbox’s flash support in our flash developer guide.