Inside Facebook, the leading voice on the world’s largest social network, covered Widgetbox’s Facebook Connect Integration today.
The article (read it here) covers three integration uses cases live on Widgetbox today:

Logging into Widgetbox using your Facebook account
Publishing widgets, ratings, and comments to your wall and news feed
Support for using Flash widgets in-line in the news feed

The article is an excellent summary of our recent Facebook Connect features and we look forward to rolling out more value in the weeks ahead.

Getting ready for July 4th?
Here are two fun widgets to add to your site in preparation for the holiday weekend.
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’edb695d7-a258-4a52-a2ba-cc24dfe70d49′);Get the Fourth of July Fireworks widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’ec0ed8cc-49a3-4939-9174-1dd078ee2dc8′);Get the 4th Of July Clock widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
To make your own Countdown to the big day, try Widgetbox’s Countdown Pro!

From all of us at Widgetbox, be safe and enjoy the day.

MSNBC is using Widgetbox Pro to aggregate celebrity tweets regarding the passing of Michael Jackson.
if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’916be377-a1ee-4ad7-bd6d-ed233ecfb990′);Get the Pipes: MJ Tweets filter widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
MSNBC used Yahoo! Pipes to build an aggregated feed of key celebrity twitter feeds and then Widgetbox to build and serve the widget content onto their page.
Thanks to MSNBC!
Click here to try Widgetbox Pro.

Widgetbox is pleased to report that we have hit a very significant milestone – 100m monthly uniques!
Measured by Quantcast, our widgets are now seen by 100.5m unique users each month and served over 700m times – representing more than 2x growth in the last year:

Those users are split evenly between men and women (51% / 49%) and have sweet spot of 35-49 and 18-34 year olds (35% and 30% respectively):

All of us at Widgetbox are thrilled to work on a consumer technology platform that touches so many people each month. …

With the world markets acting as erratic as ever, it’s important to keep close tabs on whats happening in the financial world. SaneBull is a great service that makes tracking and researching stocks easy, and they have been working on some amazing widgets to help bring their services directly to your site. The SaneBull widgets give publishers, bloggers and website owners the ability to easily embed live stock market data into their web page or blog.
Their most popular widget is the World Market Watch widget.  This widget …

SwagBucks is a search engine that offers you the chance to win cool prizes every time you search, and now they are making it even easier with the SwagBucks widget.  With this great widget you can now earn referral points each time your friends discover SwagBucks from your site.   The widget lets you search Web, Images, Videos, News as well as view the available prizes, read the SwagBucks blog, and sign up new uesrs.
There is 1000s of prizes available on SwagBucks.com and more being added everyday.   Sign up, …

The hit Showtime series Weeds is back in action with season 5 kicking off last night. By all accounts it was a great opening episode, making sure to bring back the comedy that some say was lacking throughout season 4.   Although funny, it was definitely pretty scary for Nancy right from the start, but as always I’m sure she will find a way to sneak by unscathed. If you are a fan of the show, Showtime as made some great countdown widgets for Weeds which you can …