Widgetbox is excited to announce our newest addition to the Widgetbox Pro offering: custom countdown widgets!
The Countdown Pro Creator enables users to easily, without any coding, create custom countdown widgets that can be shared across the web and shared on Facebook. Creating your countdown is easy and there are several opportunities to personalize the widget (a full tutorial is coming shortly!):
- Set your widget’s size: width and height
- Create your event: what are you counting down to?
- When is the date: set the date using our calendar
- Add a theme …

Twitter is a powerful marketing lever for communications, traffic acquisition and user interaction. But to leverage Twitter, the fact is that you need to build a following… a task that is particularly difficult for fledgling users.
In fact, earlier today, TechCrunch reported that 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers.
Widgetbox is introducing a new pilot program to help you utilize Twitter as part of your social media / user acquisition strategy. Based on the chosen package, Widgetbox will:
- build you a custom Twitter widget
- build your Twitter following …

Mashable had a great article yesterday on Twitter #Hashtags, what they mean and how to use them. For Twitter users, hashtags represent a powerful way to navigate Twitter’s activity stream, understand trending topics and find interesting users.
Mashable even recommended using Widgetbox to help navigate your Twitter activity:
“Provide a website widget: For anyone who isn’t using or knowledgeable with Twitter, provide an easy conversation tracker tool on your website. You can make one via Widgetbox”
Here’s how you can use hashtags within your Twitter widgets:
1. When creating your Blidget Pro, add …

Exciting news: you can now create Blidgets and Blidget Pros from your Facebook Feed. Add you Twitter activity, blog or RSS feed, and other useful content from across the web and you have the ultimate social media / marketing widget! Here’s how:
1. Install Chia’s Newsfeed RSS App
To get started, you need to allow the new Newsfeed RSS Application on Facebook and grant it access. The application will access your Facebook feed and convert it into an RSS feed. Note: this all occurs on Facebook.com and you will need to login …

This is part three of our series on turning your Blidget Pros into successful, viral Facebook Applications:
1. Beginners’ Guide to creating Facebook Apps
2. Video Tutorial of the Facebook App Creator
3. Advanced Guide to Facebook App customizations (below!)
Once you have turned your Blidget Pro into a Facebook Application, there are several customizations that can make your app more successful on Facebook:
Customize the Application’s About Page
Each Facebook Application has an About Page that includes (see an example here for the American Idol Application)
- A custom image and overview
- Basic statistics (reviews, …