You can now turn your Blidget Pro into Facebook Applications!
That's right: your Blidget Pro is now fully Facebook compatible. It runs on the profile page, has its own 'canvas page', is sharable, and hits the Facebook newsfeed.... meaning your Blidget Pro is ready to be viral and shared across your network of friends and colleagues. The best part: it's another feature included in the Blidget Pro package.
Below are a few screenshots demonstrating how simple it is to turn your widget into a Facebook App. To get started, simply:
- Go to "My Widgetbox"
- Pick which Blidget Pro you want and go the "Mange My Widget" page
- Then click the "Make a Facebook App" button:
Customize Your App
Walk through the step-by-step flow... it's just a few simple steps. You'll be able to customize the look of version that appears directly on the Facebook Profile:
Facebook App: On The Profile
You will have two versions of the Facebook App: one for your profile page (think of it like a mini-app) and the full version on the canvas page:
Each week, Widgetbox rolls out enhancements and new features. This week, we have four important announcements:
1. Blidget Pros Go Facebook
A full post is coming... but the big news is that Blidget Pros are now Facebook compatible: on the profile, on the 'canvas page', via the news feed and more!
2. Reordering of Blidget Pro Tabs
One of the great features of Blidget Pro is the inclusion of tabs and custom tabs. Now, you can rearrange the ordering of the tabs with our simple UI (up and down arrows!). Now editing and updating your widgets is simple!
3. New About Us Section
Go 'Inside the Box' and learn more about Widgetbox, best practices, the team, etc
4. New Try Blidget Pro Section
Before you 'Go Pro', gain access to features, examples, screencasts and more
Don't miss an update - subscribe to What's New on Widgetbox via widget, RSS or email:
Whether you're a blogger or a SMB owner, you'll find the below eight widgets useful in delivering search functionality to your website and readers. Most of the widgets are also configurable such that you can promote your own brand and content:
Overview: Newsmap is a visual reflection of Google News headlines in a customizable, easy-to-digest widget. You can configure the widget's size, layout, country and news category (seven options from business to sports to entertainment). Within the widget, you can filter news by time, region and layout.
Ideal Use Cases: Newsmap is unique because the content is so dynamic and visual. Consequently, it works perfectly as the anchor in single blog post themes (either beneath the main post or the comments). It also works well as a news source / filter on start pages like Netvibes.
Overview: Show Google web, news, video and blog post results with fine-grained control over what sorts of content is shown to your visitors. You configure the search terms, widget layout, display mode, and so forth. Beware: the choices are daunting!
Ideal Use Cases: Social web users with a presence throughout the web: blogs, video, and so forth. Also ideal for SMB marketers hoping to promote their presence across the web.
Overview: Allow readers to search any website or domain using Google Site Search. You can configure the searchable site (the below instance is for http://blog.ingamenow.com); and because the widget's background is clear, it inherits your website's style / CSS.
Ideal Use Cases: Perfect for blog side bars or site footers.
Overview: Similar to the Google Site Search Widget, but instead of searching a specified website or domain, the widget opens a Google web search. Similarly, the widget has a clear background and thus inherits your site's style. Both open Google searches in a new window.
Ideal Use Cases: Perfect for blogs where the intent is to deliver users to Google searches across the web rather than a particular domain.
Overview: If real estate on your website is *very* precious, this is the widget for you. It's all of 23 pixels tall - making it conspicuous but powerful. The widget allows you customize the searchable site / domain and even allows you to include your own logo in the search results.
Ideal Use Cases: Perfect for the real estate conscious as it fits easily in blog sidebars, headers and footers.
Overview: A simple search box to allow searches across Google, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. No configurations available - but none are really needed in this simple, but effective widget.
Ideal Use Cases: Perfect for social network pages like MySpace.
Overview: A simple wide widget that scrolls through Google News headlines for an inputted search term(s). The widget displays headlines and is configurable based on size, cycle mode and display mode (horizontal or vertical). The below widget is configured for the search term "Red Sox".
Ideal Use Cases: Perfect for the base of a blog post. You can have the widget display news for your company or the headline in your post.
If you're a blogger - you just *might* be interested in sharing your content and posts with additional readers.... now you you can easily make your content go viral with these easy to add widgets from Widgetbox developer Bastawhiz!
These social widgets are easily embeddable via javascript and pull the page's URL for dynamic submission to social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, etc - effectively enabling readers to share your content and other users to find it!
The best location for these widgets is actually in your blog's template. Placing one or all of these widgets onto your "Main Index Page" and "Single Post" templates (the terminology for Wordpress) allows you to share your content by only touching your template once!
Take a look and let us know if you are interested in other social widgets:
Facebook ShareStumbleUpon ShareDel.icio.us ShareDigg ShareYardbarker ShareMultiple Social Sites Widgets
Friday, April 17, 2009 at 4:47PM 
