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 …

By using Facebook Connect on Widgetbox, widget users and developers can easily share their activity and widgets through the Facebook feed and across their social graph. It is a tremendously powerful way to distribute your widget, share content and collect feedback from friends.
The first step is connecting your Widgetbox account with Facebook (read why and how).
Once your Widgetbox account is connected with Facebook, sharing and promoting is simple and effective. There are two primary options:
 

Share Through the Get Widget Menu
Whether you created the widget or you just grabbed …

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 …

The latest Blidget Pro enhancement is a very big one:
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 …

Kijiji, eBay’s popular free classifieds site, now has widgets for six of their popular classifieds sites:
- Atlanta Classifieds
- Chicago Classifieds
- Detroit Classifieds
- Houston Classifieds
- New York Classifieds
- Los Angeles Classifieds
For each of these cities, Kijiji’s widgets dyanmically feature classifieds listings from the community. There is a tab for all listings, jobs, pets, real estate / housing and motors. Kijiji features 100,000s of listings and attracts millions of monthly visitors – so the widgets are a powerful way to keep track of what’s new in each region and across different verticals. …