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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Widget developers, your wildest fantasies have been realized!
When building your widget’s config screen, the color picker data type now has an option to return the value without the #. For example, if the user chooses white it can return as “#FFFFFF” or “FFFFFF”.
This was requested for cases where you’re passing the color as part …
Sometime in the next two weeks we will be releasing version 1.1. It will add several ways to link to widgets from outside of Widgetbox.
Links for bloggers. A simple UI for a blogger to get a link or chiclet to the widget. This is done from the widget’s gallery page.
Preconfiguring a widget via its …
Tonight Widgetbox relased version 1.0.1.
This release contains a bunch of small things.
Faster widgets. We’ve done a lot of work on making sure all the JavaScript is compressed, and that all browsers cache it correctly. We’ve tested the compression pretty extensively, but please PLEASE let us know if you see an issue with your widget that …
