Tag Archive for 'Features'

Widgetbox v1.5 Released

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 existing widgets get this automatically …

Widgetbox enables one click installation, links out of MySpace

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 …

Blidget updates: more image options, faster, more robust

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 variants of feeds.
Improved our rendering …

Widgetbox: now tag powered!

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 the catalog of widgets had …

Measuring the Widget Economy

You might have noticed that the front door of www.widgetbox.com now shows several key statistics that every blogger and widget developer will want to keep their eyes on.

The number of widgets served up to blogs since Widgetbox began operations.

The month-on-month increase of the …