Running, and a Start-Up

Giles Goodwin

Co-Founder and CTO

As part of Widgetbox's new staff series—we'll be bringing you occasional guest posts from members of the Widgetbox team.

A number of us at Widgetbox are runners. It didn't start out that way, but it's pretty normal these days to see a few of us in running shorts at the end of the day as we prepare for a group run or overhear discussion about mileage and pace mixed in with talk about MapReduce.  David, our Operations Lead, and Chris, our Director of Engineering, were long-time runners before starting at Widgetbox, but many of us became runners while working here.

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New Site Makes Online Yard-Sales Easy

Recently our office manager had some everyday household items to sell and instead of turning to her old standby of Craigslist, decided to try a new selling site called Yardsellr. After spreading the word about the new site around the office, we decided that a site that combined our passion for both yard-sales and social media just had to be shared with our Widgetbox friends.

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Introducing Mobile Web Apps: Go Mobile in Minutes

We're extremely excited to announce the launch of our newest product —mobile web apps.

Starting today you can make and distribute a feature-rich mobile app in minutes without writing any code. New mobile web apps are compatible with iPhone and Android devices—allowing you to reach your mobile audience without an app store.

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October Spotlight: Our Most Popular Widget

This month's spotlight widget is also the most frequently created widget on Widgetbox—the Countdown widget.

The Countdown widget allows users to quickly create a professional-looking countdown to any upcoming event—be it a business event such as a conference, webinar, or product release—or a personal event such as a wedding, birthday, or anniversary. Users can customize their countdown by taking advantage of 8 basic theming options and multiple styles of clock display.

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New Twitter Display Options

This month we're excited to announce three new display options for your Twitter content— Lists, Search, and Favorites. All three options give you additional means of moderating what Twitter content appears before your audience while allowing you to include content from different Twitter accounts.

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