http://docs.widgetbox.com Widgetizing the web Wed, 14 May 2008 06:02:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Widgetbox blog has moved to blog.widgetbox.com We hope you like the new reading experience! http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/weve-moved/ 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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/widgetbox-v15-released/ 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, ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/who%e2%80%99s-behind-our-most-popular-widgets/ 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, ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/what-makes-a-widget-popular/ 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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/widgetbox-rolls-out-new-myspace-support/ 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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/widgetbox-improves-the-blidget/ 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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/widgetbox-now-tag-powered/ 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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/what-do-books-and-widgets-have-in-common/ 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! http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/valentine-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 ... http://docs.widgetbox.com/blog/feedster-puts-blidget-badge-on-front-door/