Whether you want to add your blog’s headlines to your main website, let your fans showcase your content to their audience, or you want a widget that helps make your content more discoverable across the web, Widgetbox-powered widgets will help Blogger users get the most visibility for their content, while eliminating the need for any manual updating or management.

For example, the Blogger Buzz widget below was made in seconds and includes posts, images, and Blogger Buzz branding.


Key Benefits?
1. The easiest way to build a widget from Blogger
2. Colorful, interactive, and engaging
3. Easy to add to Blogger and sites across the web
4. As you update your Blogger blog, the widget automatically updates with the latest posts, headlines, and images
5. Helps you to reach new readers and drive traffic back to your blog

How Do I Build My Widget?
Building a widget with Widgetbox is simple, easy, and fun. Simply:
1. Enter your blog feed
2. Design your widget’s look and feel
3. Publish the widget
4. Add it your site and watch it spread across the web
5. Access statistics on unique views, widget installs, and other blogs and domains that have installed your widget

Tens of thousands of Blogger users have already made a widget from their blog on Widgetbox.

Take your blog feed. Make it into a widget. Share it with everyone!

It’s that easy!

Finally, thank you to Rick Klau and the entire Blogger team for their support in making this partnership happen!

To fulfill my mission — putting social media to work to make Smarter Planet real and relevant to people around the world — I’ve found Widgetbox to be the kind of smarter service that has helped me syndicate content from the Smarter Planet | Tumblr site much farther and wider than I ever imagined. The widgets I was able to build from the feeds of topic-specific content have helped us more than double our reach in just a few months.

What’s more, with minimal technical expertise I was able to easily customize the design and functionality of each widget — Smarter Cities, Smarter Energy, Smarter Healthcare (as well as the Analytics Album which cover this new frontier of advanced business analytics, a very hot area) — and even succeeded in translating them into Facebook Apps.

Smarter Planet is about the great leap ahead as the digital and physical worlds mesh and converge. About an Internet of trillions of connected devices, tags and even software objects like the staggering array served up by Widgetbox. In the end its about all the ways in which we all become smarter as knowledge flows.

I hope you’ll share the Smarter Planet story by sharing these widgets with your networks. And thanks Widgetbox for making my job smarter, easier and more effective.

Jack Mason
Strategic Programs & Social Media
IBM Global Business Services
Twitter IDs: ibmbizanalytics, jackmason

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The LinkShare widgets display targeted products from single or multiple advertisers, giving publishers the hottest and most valuable products in a single widget. The widgets are dynamically updated and feature the freshest, most popular products. Other custom features include: multiple tabs of product content, multiple product display modes, custom sizing and custom styles. The widgets are easily embedded onto websites, blogs, and social media sites – including Facebook.

“Performance-based marketing programs offer retailers a chance to reach new audiences of online shoppers,” said Jonathan Levine, co-president, LinkShare. “We are constantly looking for innovative, user-friendly ways to help members of our network achieve this goal. LinkShare’s partnership with Widgetbox allows us to offer our network of affiliates an easy, valuable tool that will help them engage consumers.”

LinkShare recently unveiled the company’s new mantra of “easy, fast, open” – its commitment to offering technologies that are easy-to-use, fast-to-market, and open across channels at its Symposium East 2009. At the event, the company also spotlighted its new Bento Box, which offers an assortment of applications and tools, including those built by third parties, that integrate LinkShare Web Services. The Widgetbox ad unit is the newest application to join the Bento Box.

“Our fully customizable widget ad unit is a valuable complement to LinkShare’s expansive network of affiliates and advertisers. Through the use of our tools, LinkShare affiliates will be able to add dynamic, customized product ads to their websites, blogs and social profiles – a proven way to achieve higher engagements with consumers. Simply put, this means higher conversions and more revenue for affiliates,” said Steve Klopf, VP of Revenue, Widgetbox. “We are very excited about our new partnership with LinkShare.”

Widgetbox looks forward to working with LinkShare to help redefine the nature of “ads,” moving them from static banners to distributed content modules that drive higher click-through-rates for advertisers and higher revenue for publishers.

Twitter widgets are among the most popular usages of Widgetbox’s Blidget Pro tool – for both brands and bloggers. Zazzle, the popular “on-demand retail platform”, actively uses Twitter to engage fans and customers (now with nearly 5,000 followers!).

Now you can follow Zazzle directly from their branded Twitter widget which:
- dynamically showcases the latest Tweets
- allows users to follow @zazzle
- includes custom Zazzle branding
- a tab with Zazzle’s latest blog posts
- the widget can be shared on Facebook and via Facebook Connect

More about Zazzle: Infinite and instant, Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands to offer billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products — many of which are produced within 24 hours. Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making them available for purchase and customization by consumers. Through Zazzle’s innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online.

Zazzle operates www.Zazzle.com, www.Zazzle.co.uk, www.Zazzle.ca, www.Zazzle.com.au, and www.ARTSPROJEKT.com.

Top 10 New Releases for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii

Gamefly tracks the hottest, most popular new releases across each of the three major systems and delivers them dynamically via their widget. It is a exciting, powerful way for fans and bloggers to showcase the newest titles and latest gaming trends… which will surely be impacted by the E3 event this week.

You can also add the Gamefly widget on Facebook in three ways:
1. Open the Get Widget menu below and click the Facebook logo – it will take you to Facebook and allow you to add to your profile!
2. Go directly to the Gamefly Facebook App and add from there
3. Go to the Gamefly App Page and add it from there!

About Gamefly:

At GameFly, we put video games where they belong – in the hands of the gamers who love ‘em. With GameFly, you get the games you really want, and you can play them as long as you like. We have all the top games for PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, GameCube, DS and GBA.

For one flat monthly fee, you can rent as many games as you want, with no due dates, no late fees, and pre-paid mail both ways. If you like a game so much that you don’t want to send it back to us, you can Keep it for our low pre-played game price. To start getting games delivered to your home, sign up today for a free trial or get a discount on your first month.

The conversation also resulted in Zennie’s SFGate article “Susan Boyle Needs a Widget From Widgetbox.com“:

What I like about Widgetbox is the same for almost every Internet company I’ve ever visited or been involved with in some way: it’s fun. There seems to be this standard format where the staff is a mix of the techy programmers and the people doing other business functions in one place – programming is not outsourced.

Also, Widgetbox, like many Internet firms in the Bay Area, is “young” not just in age – three years – but in that the staff is young. All of the Widgetbox people I met looked to be in their 20s and 30s. And, of course, there’s always a remote staffer or two, in Widgetbox’s case, in Boston. There’s a dry-erase board with notes on whatever, and in general an open, freeform environment of people who really seem to like what they do.

Of course, Zennie left the Widgetbox offices and created his own widget:

The video will also be featured on the national television show “The Blog Report With Zennie62″ (also available at Zennie62.com and Colourstv.org.
at http://www.zennie62.com and live stream at http://www.colourstv.org. The Blog Report With Zennie62 started May 2 2009 and covers politics, tech, news, and sports on The CoLoursTV Network channels 9407 & 9396 on the DISH Network Satellite TV. The times are Saturdays 3:30 PM PST / 6:30 PM EST then again at 11:30 PM PST and 2:30 AM EST. And Sundays at 12 noon PST and 3 PM EST.

The new Diddit widget brings you the best things to do in travel, outdoors, food and more.

Diddit is a site for people to discover, connect and get credit for their life experiences. Diddit’s has communities and reviews for all the best things to do in travel, outdoors, food, books, movies, sports and more — everything fun to do in the world. On Diddit you can check off the things you’ve done, share your experiences with the community and get recommendations for new things you’ll like.

Go ahead: grab the widget or visit Diddit to find the best things to do!

The Narrow Diddit Widget

The Wide Version

About the Diddit widget:
- built using Widgetbox’s Blidget Pro Tool
- articles are in slideshow mode with description (great photos!)
- there are 10 tabs for content so that users can view “all topics” or narrow down to specific topics:
Travel, Outdoors, Food, Music, Beauty, Sports, Books, TV + Movies, Nostalgia
- Diddit turned their Blidget Pro into a Facebook Application as well (add it here!)

If you are interested in creating similar integrations with your user-base, please contact us directly (shawn @ widgetbox.com)!

You can find more about Showtime’s The Tudors:
- On Showtime
- On The Examiner
- And on Widgetbox