Widgetbox Announces Publisher Pro with Support for Facebook Fan Pages

Widgetbox is excited to announce the release of Publisher Pro with support for Facebook Fan Pages. Publisher Pro users can now easily create apps for their Facebook Fan Pages directly from their content: blog, news, Twitter, games, widgets, and more.  Publisher Pro is available for $19.99 per month or $149.99 per year. Facebook’s recent launch of Fan Pages creates huge opportunities for cutting edge web properties. Today, users expect to visit www.facebook.com/yourcompanyname to learn, engage, and become a champion of your brand. Widgetbox’s Fan Page solutions allows businesses to rapidly build out a rich user experience on Facebook and reach new fans and engage existing ones. In addition to Fan Page support, Publisher Pro users enjoy access to Widgetbox's Pro widget suite, including easy to use templates for countdown, slide show, poll, this-or-that, Blidget Pro, and more Visit Widgetbox's Fan Page to see the solution in action. Try Publisher Pro and build a Facebook Fan Page today and let us know what you think!

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Blogger and Widgetbox Partner to Power Blog Widgets

In honor of Blogger’s 10th birthday, all of us at Widgetbox are excited to announce a partnership with Blogger that allows you to quickly and easily turn your Blogger blog into a widget. Whether you want to add your blog’s headlines to your main website, let your fans showcase your content to their audience, or you want a widget that helps make your content more discoverable across the web, Widgetbox-powered widgets will help Blogger users get the most visibility for their content, while eliminating the need for any manual updating or management. For example, the Blogger Buzz widget below was made in seconds and includes posts, images, and Blogger Buzz branding.

eBay Partner Network and Widgetbox Partner to Power Affiliate Solutions

We are pleased to announce that eBay Partner Network and Widgetbox have partnered to allow eBay affiliates to create customized widgets from any eBay RSS feed. The eBay Partner Network (EPN) is the affiliate arm of the marketplace giant and provides tools that help affiliates earn money by driving qualified, quality traffic to eBay listings. Widgetbox allows EPN affiliates to create highly engaging creative from parametrized eBay listings that will serve to increase engagement, drive higher click-through-rates, and help affiliates earn more money. With one click access to the Blidget Editor from the eBay Partner Network's RSS Feed Generator, you can have a custom Blidget up and running in no time. You’ll be able to choose from different layouts, backgrounds, patterns, colors, and headers. For advanced customization, Go Pro and take your widget to the next level! What do you need to do? It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!

1. Create your account: You’ll need to have accounts at both Widgetbox and eBay Partner Network
2. Set up your RSS feed: In eBay Partner Network, go to the “Tools” tab and click on the “Widgets” section. Within the RSS generator, fill in all the details and press the “generate an RSS link” to create an RSS link
3. Make Blidgets! Once the link is created, click on the link next to “Widget URL” to turn your RSS feed into a widget you can customize in Widgetbox. A browser window will open onto a Widgetbox page to complete your customization settings.

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Widgetbox Enjoying Record Customer Wins and Revenue Growth

Widgetbox, the leading freemium provider of widget solutions, is pleased to announce a record number of new customers and an 810% year-over-year revenue increase. The record performance year-to-date continues the rapid growth trend the company has experienced in the past 12 months. Widgetbox's record customer acquisition and revenue growth reflects the growing demand for self-service, freemium based widget solutions from content publishers. Year to date, Widgetbox added over 7,600 new customers from the world's largest companies to casual content publishers. The common need - for non-technical, easy to use, flexible widget solutions - is allowing Widgetbox to drive customer acquisition across the board. New customers this year include the PGA, the NBA, IBM, Microsoft, AOL, eBay, LinkShare, CBS Interactive, HP Direct, the American Heart Association, and many more market leaders. In addition to our record revenue and customer growth, Widgetbox is now ranked as the 21st largest Internet property, as measured by Quantcast, with a reach of over 107 million uniques per month. Thank you to all our customers, partners, and users for helping Widgetbox continue to grow and thrive. Rest assured, we are hard at work developing new solutions to better meet your need for freemium, self-service publishing solutions.

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Widgetbox Pleased to Introduce a New Make Widget Page

In our efforts to better serve our users, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new Make Widget page. The page aims to empower non-technical content publishers to be able to create dynamic, highly engaging widgets. Since the launch of our Pro Suite, we have worked hard to eliminate the technical complexity and challenges typically associated with web widget development. Every day, we strive to make Widgetbox easier, faster, and more powerful so that you can spend your time creating content, reaching new users, and expanding your reach. The new make widget page allows users to widgets from their content, top Internet services, and from Widgetbox's Pro Suite. The Make Widget page includes the following, with more to come:

• Blog feed
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Hulu
• Flickr
• Countdown
• Poll
• Slide Show
• This-or-That

In addition, for our more technical users, the Make Widget page supports widget development using Flash, JavaScript, Remote HTML, and Google Gadgets.

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