Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 10:11AM The "lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy, passed away last night. In a tribute to Ted Kennedy, MSNBC built a Twitter widget using Yahoo! Pipes and Widgetbox to showcase the world's tweets commenting on his passing. We join the nation in remembering Kennedy. RIP.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 5:49PM Widgetbox is excited to announce our newest addition to the Widgetbox Pro suite: This-or-That Pro.
This-or-That Pro enables users to easily, without any coding, create This-or-That widgets that can be shared across the web and on Facebook. Creating your This-or-That is easy and there are several opportunities to personalize the widget:
- Set your widget's size: width and height
- Create choices: A or B, hot or not, up or down, etc.
- Add images, theme, and custom backgrounds: you can upload your own photo or choose any of our available themes
Widgetbox Pro, this-or-that in Announcements, Widgets Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:37AM It's easy to be enthusiastic about my role in helping evangelize Smarter Planet, IBM's effort to help the worlds systems -- including food production, healthcare delivery, energy production, traffic and water management -- become more instrumented, interconnected and, ultimately, intelligent. That's a vision that most people not only understand, but want to see fulfilled. To fulfill my mission -- putting social media to work to make Smarter Planet real and relevant to people around the world -- I've found Widgetbox to be the kind of smarter service that has helped me syndicate content from the Smarter Planet | Tumblr site much farther and wider than I ever imagined. The widgets I was able to build from the feeds of topic-specific content have helped us more than double our reach in just a few months. What's more, with minimal technical expertise I was able to easily customize the design and functionality of each widget -- Smarter Cities, Smarter Energy, Smarter Healthcare (as well as the Analytics Album which cover this new frontier of advanced business analytics, a very hot area) -- and even succeeded in translating them into Facebook Apps. Smarter Planet is about the great leap ahead as the digital and physical worlds mesh and converge. About an Internet of trillions of connected devices, tags and even software objects like the staggering array served up by Widgetbox. In the end its about all the ways in which we all become smarter as knowledge flows. I hope you'll share the Smarter Planet story by sharing these widgets with your networks. And thanks Widgetbox for making my job smarter, easier and more effective. Jack Mason Strategic Programs & Social Media IBM Global Business Services Twitter IDs: ibmbizanalytics, jackmason
IBM, Jack Mason in Industry News & Insights, Widgets Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:58AM HP Academy is using Widgetbox to introduce their new Back to School Countdown Widget, making sure students, as well as their family and friends, are all ready for the big day back. The Countdown Widget lets user view awesome quotes, quizzes and college trivia every day until the studying begins. The Countdown Widget will also provide students with an easy way to save on all the latest HP products through exclusive academic savings. To take advantage of the savings make sure to create your own and visit HP Academy for amazing student discounts and the hottest new HP products for school and entertainment.
Back to School, Countdown, HP, HP Academy in Announcements Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 3:54PM The Insider, CBS' award-winning celebrity news site, is using Widgetbox to provide a branded-Twitter widget. The Insider's Twittering Live From the Field page showcases the Twitter widget, powered by Widgetbox. The widget, included below, includes a custom header and footer, two tabs, and dynamic Twitter updates. The widget is a wonderful example of what a user can build with a Widgetbox Pro account. Go Pro and get started!