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Ed just wrote about our five most popular widgets, and now I would like to introduce you to three of the developers behind them. I think it is interesting to consider what motivates developers to build widgets. It tends to be three main forces: to generate traffic, acquire users, and drive transactions. Of …
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 …
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!
Our thanks goes to Feedster, blog search leader, for putting the Widgetbox blidget badge on their front door. Now all of the thousands of bloggers coming to Feedster can discover the easiest way to turn their blog into a widget.
Feedster adds a lot of value to the blogosphere, and especially their excellent …
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 …
Blogger.com and all the blogs on BlogSpot have had intermittant problems all morning and are completely down right now — hitting Blogger’s front door variously gives a 502 error or a “down for maintenance” message.
This has exposed a flaw in our new Blidgets feature: bad error reporting. When people try to create a Blidget …
Today, we introduced the Widgetbox blidget. A blidget turns any blog into a widget. And, we don’t just mean an RSS feed widget. Now you can easily create a customized blidget to include any elements from your blog such as photos, post links, images, audio clips and other digital content. We created blidgets to …
