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Our Popular Slideshow Widget is Better than Ever

Jillian Jones — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:59:10 +0000

Here at Widgetbox we’re always looking to improve our widgets to make them even more fun and useful for you. We recently made some cool improvements to our popular Slideshow widget that will make it even easier for you to share your images.

The Slideshow widget allows you to easily turn your content into a professional looking slideshow—simply upload images from your computer, and in just 5 minutes you’ll have a personalized slideshow to share with friends.

Make a slideshow to show off your new puppy, the office Halloween party, your last vacation, or just about any other slideshow you can think of.

Install your personalized slideshow on MySpace, Twitter, a blog, or any other web page of your choosing.

Pro account users get even more customization for their slideshows, including: 16 themes, multiple slideshow settings, and advanced stylings of fonts and colors. As with all Pro widgets, Pro users can also opt to remove the Get Widget button.

Not currently a Pro user? Try Widgetbox Pro for free with a 7-day trial and start adding Pro features to your widgets.

Make Halloween Even More Fun with Cool Halloween-Themed Widgets

Jillian Jones — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:50:21 +0000

It’s almost Halloween, and that means it’s time to spice up your websites and social network pages with fun Halloween-themed widgets.

At Widgetbox.com it’s easy to find just about any kind of Halloween widget you’re looking for. In just a few minutes (and with no coding knowledge necessary) you can install widgets directly to: Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, You Tube, iGoogle, or just about any other site.

Get started today with some of our most popular Halloween-themed Widgets including:

Halloween Countdown

Design Your Own Jack O’ Lantern

Halloween Picture Puzzles

Halloween Costumes

And many more!

Check out all of our cool Halloween-themed Widgets

2 New Facebook Apps

Jillian Jones — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:20:44 +0000

We’ve just added two new Facebook apps that you can add to your Fan Page—our Gallery and Poll apps.

The Gallery app will allow you to showcase your brand’s news or products, while highlighting one featured item. Your followers will be able to click on each individual article or product summary—driving traffic back to your website.

The Poll app will allow you to create customized polls for your Facebook Fan Page. Poll your followers on new releases, hot article topics, or just about anything else. With our real-time updating, you’ll be able to view up-to-the–minute results of your poll anytime you want.

Like all of our Facebook Fan Page apps—the Gallery and Poll apps allow you to include; a customized header with an image, font colors of your choosing, and a sidebar widget.

Facebook Fan Page apps are only available to our Publisher Pro and Business Pro users.

If you’re not currently a Publisher Pro or Business Pro user , you can go Pro for free and start using Pro features such as our customizable Facebook Fan Page apps.

Make Awesome Forms with our Newest Pro Widget

Jillian Jones — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:28:37 +0000

After months of hard work, we just released our brand new Form widget! With our newest widget you can create and share a customized form in minutes. Create a contact form, registration form, questionnaire, or just about any other form you can think of.

With no coding knowledge necessary you can easily make a multiple choice questionnaire to put on your blog, a “Contact Us” form for your website, or a fun party invitation to share with friends on MySpace.

You can choose from 8 basic themes and include up to 5 fields in your Form widget. Best of all you can easily download your form submissions results right from Widgetbox.

Pro users get even more customization options and features for their widget. In addition to choosing from 16 themes, Pro users can; add unlimited fields, upload their own header image, and even hide the Get Widget button.

Not a Pro user? Go Pro for free with our new 7-day trial and start adding Pro features to your widgets.

Widgetbox Announces Publisher Pro with Support for Facebook Fan Pages

Will Price — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:42:17 +0000

Widgetbox is excited to announce the release of Publisher Pro with support for Facebook Fan Pages.

Publisher Pro users can now easily create apps for their Facebook Fan Pages directly from their content: blog, news, Twitter, games, widgets, and more. Publisher Pro is available for $19.99 per month or $149.99 per year.

Facebook’s recent launch of Fan Pages creates huge opportunities for cutting edge web properties. Today, users expect to visit www.facebook.com/yourcompanyname to learn, engage, and become a champion of your brand.

Widgetbox’s Fan Page solutions allows businesses to rapidly build out a rich user experience on Facebook and reach new fans and engage existing ones.

In addition to Fan Page support, Publisher Pro users enjoy access to Widgetbox’s Pro widget suite, including easy to use templates for countdown, slide show, poll, this-or-that, Blidget Pro, and more

Visit Widgetbox’s Fan Page to see the solution in action.

Try Publisher Pro and build a Facebook Fan Page today and let us know what you think!

Widgetbox Pleased to Introduce a New Make Widget Page

Will Price — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:56:40 +0000

In our efforts to better serve our users, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new Make Widget page. The page aims to empower non-technical content publishers to be able to create dynamic, highly engaging widgets. Since the launch of our Pro Suite, we have worked hard to eliminate the technical complexity and challenges typically associated with web widget development.

Every day, we strive to make Widgetbox easier, faster, and more powerful so that you can spend your time creating content, reaching new users, and expanding your reach.

The new make widget page allows users to widgets from their content, top Internet services, and from Widgetbox’s Pro Suite.

The Make Widget page includes the following, with more to come:

In addition, for our more technical users, the Make Widget page supports widget development using Flash, JavaScript, Remote HTML, and Google Gadgets.

Widgetbox Introduces Business Pro

Will Price — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:27:26 +0000

Widgetbox is pleased to announce the addition of Business Pro to the Widgetbox Pro product offering.

Business Pro is designed to serve the needs of our enterprise, media publisher, and government clients.

Why are we releasing Pro Business?

Since the launch of Widgetbox Pro, a service designed for individuals and small publishers, we have added thousands of paying subscribers. Along with individual users, we began to see large number of media companies, enterprises, and governments adopt the service. Naturally, these larger users asked for features, bandwidth, and key services unique to their size and scale.

With the launch of Business Pro, Widgetbox is proudly able to serve the needs of our larger customers.

Business Pro is priced at $99 per month or $749 per year. For enteprise, publisher, and government users looking to leverage the web’s leading self-service widget platform, click here to upgrade.

Widgetbox now offers Free, Pro, and Pro Business options for our millions of users and we look forward to future product releases and to adding value to all three important user segments.

Announcing Twitter Promo Packages: Custom Widget & Twitter Campaign

Jillian Jones — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:18:46 +0000

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 (either by 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 followers)
- promote and distribute your widget

Widgetbox can help users and brands either grow their Twitter campaigns OR launch / create their strategies. In either approach, letting Widgetbox grow your Twitter presence will make your marketing efforts more effective and allow you to consistently and more easily grow your following.

The three packages are below. You can contact me directly to get started () or via Widgetbox’s Partner page:

Widgetbox now supports PayPal

Shawn Cronin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:38:16 +0000

Since the launch of Widgetbox Pro the number one request from users has been to add Paypal and make the purchasing experience even better. Well your request were heard, and we went to work to add this wonderful functionality. Now users can enter the normal Widgetbox Pro purchase flow, and choose between using a credit card or Paypal. Enjoy.

Widgetbox Integrates Facebook Connect

Jillian Jones — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:25:56 +0000

Widgetbox is very excited to announce our official integration with Facebook Connect. The benefits to the Widgetbox community are clear:

- Simple Widgetbox registration and/or user login
- Ability to effectively share your widgets and Widgetbox activity across your Facebook ‘Social Graph’
- Tools specifically intended to make widgets more viral and easier to distribute
- Improved on-Facebook widget integration and messaging
… And we are just getting started!

Below is a quick guide to registering through Facebook Connect and – if you already have a Widgetbox account – linking your account. You’ll realize it’s very easy! Please also read the posts on:

- Sharing / Promoting your Widgets with Facebook Connect

- Commenting and Rating with Facebook Connect

Registering Through Facebook Connect – Or Linking Your Current Widgetbox Account

There are two ways to utilize Facebook Connect for registration / login… and both are very easy.

First, new users are now able to register on Widgetbox either through their Facebook Connect login or directly through Widgetbox by providing an email address, username and password. Both work fine – but if you are an active Facebook user, you will realize that registering through Facebook Connect is simple. To get started, either click the “Join Now” link in the Widgetbox header or press the large “Connect with Facebook” graphic on the right side of the homepage. When you get to the following screen, just press the Facebook Connect button to get started:

If you are currently a Widgetbox user, you can now link your Facebook account via Facebook Connect. To do so, you can either use the same flow above (but instead of clicking “Join Now” simply click “Login” and the initiate Facebook Connect). Or, you can go to the My Account page (linked in the header) and then add your Facebook credentials.

A couple notes regarding Widgetbox and Facebook Connect:

- Connecting your Widgetbox account with Facebook Connect is important as it is a necessary action in using the other Facebook Connect tools / integrations on Widgetbox.

- It is secure and safe as the connection is authenticated through Facebook. For instance, if you logout of Facebook, your Widgetbox session would be ‘disconnected’ and you would need to re-login

- You will notice that, when your account is linked, you will see your Facebook profile photo on your Widgetbox account page. That’s one way you will know it worked!

- You can always disconnect your account through the My Account page. And you can always reconnect it as well.