Widgetbox

Widgetbox released version 1.2 tonight.

This release focuses on giving developers the tools they need to understand how their widget is being used out there on the wild wooly internet. We call this Widget Syndication Metrics. It takes the form of a powerful, easy to use analytics dashboard for widget developers that is free and comes with every widget on Widgetbox.

Here’s the documentation.

One cool thing about it is that it’s been in the works since before the very first beta version of Widgetbox was released, which means your widget’s statistics go back to the beginning of time (i.e., August).

The new metrics platform we put into place underneath allowed us to build one heck of a system monitoring and management console too — not that you’ll see it. If a fly lands on a widget in Khartoum, we’ll know about it!

We’ll be blogging more about the metrics in a bit.

As always, there’s a bunch of little things here and there — a usability tweak here, and easter egg there. As you use the site and the developer dashboard I’m sure you’ll notice a few.

Enjoy!