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Widget Summit, Nov. 3-4, San Francisco

Ready to turbocharge your widget strategy?  Widget Summit is a two-day intensive on the state of the syndicated Web.

Digital Hollywood, October 27-30, Santa Monica

Ready or not, Hollywood is going digital. At Digital Hollywood’s fall event in Santa Monica, digital platforms — including widgets your “mini-obsessions managed and delivered as desired” — are examined from all sides.

Sexy Widget Pokes Fun at High-Priced Widgets

We’re big fans of Lawrence Coburn’s so wanted to take this opportunity to back him up on calling out FastCompany for portraying widgets as expensive marketing vehicles when the reality is they are anything but. Highlighting an article that claimed that widgets can cost as much as $100K, Coburn writes: “As we approach economic downturn, …

Arcade game widgets? We’ve got ‘em

Examiner.com writes here about the wide world of game widgets and gives Widgetbox the shout out for being the go-to spot for all your Asteroid-smashing, Super Mario-jumping and Breakout needs.

Candidates Widget-up for Election Day

In this blog post on YouthToday.org, Alex Rush points out that you don’t need to be an expert to use election widgets and provides a link to Widgetbox. “Widgetbox offers several election-related tools that users can download for free. Two of the most popular are ‘Barack Obama: Latest News’ and ‘The McCain Report,’ widgets that …

MyWebGrocer Reaches for Widgets

In this news release, MyWebGrocer.com describes how the company uses Widgetbox widgets to highlight items on sale at their retail outlets. MyWebGrocer’s Curt Alpeter says, “The use of widgets has exploded over the past year and they have already proven themselves to be valuable for online consumers. I am very excited about the first of …

MeDeploy Picks Widgetbox For Viral Movie Distribution

Easy to Use and Full-Featured, Widgetbox Widget ?Powers MeDeploy’s Filmmakers
SAN FRANCISCO, October 15, 2008 – Widgetbox, the world’s first and largest widget community today announced a partnership with MeDeploy, a Connecticut-based startup that enables the film industry to launch digital distribution around the net.  Widgetbox and MeDeploy are launching a way to build and deploy …

Widgetbox and Yardbarker Join Forces to Power Sports Blog Network

600 Sports Bloggers and Enthusiasts Now Connected by a Single Widget
SAN FRANCISCO, October 8, 2008 – Widgetbox, the world’s first and largest widget community and Yardbarker Network (YBN), a community of the best sports blogs from around the Internet, today announce a partnership to connect YBN’s 600 bloggers with a single widget. With its boisterous …

Widgetbox Taps Massive Network to Connect Bloggers to a Targeted Audience

New Widgetbox Blog Network Drives Traffic and Builds Exposure
For Member Blogs
LAS VEGAS, September 19, 2008 — Traffic: bloggers want it, Widgetbox has it. The world’s first and largest widget community announced today at the BlogWorld Expo the launch of the Widgetbox Blog Network, a federation of bloggers and online content publishers that fosters connections across …

Trendspotting at BlogWorldExpo: What’s Next in Blogging and Social Media?

Mashable’s Adam Ostrow debriefs after BlogWorldExpo and shares his key takeaways with readers. In this post, Adam describes widgets as “web rings 2.0″ and highlights the Widgetbox Blog Network for giving publishers the means to improve their page views.