On Wednesday, I had the unique opportunity to appear on RSS Ray’s radio show to speak about widgets. I am trying to get a copy of the discussion (in podcast form) – but in the meantime, here are eight tips that I shared with Ray… and that users of RSS can implement immediately:
RSS & Widgets: 8 Ways to Utilize RSS in Widgets
RSS feeds make it easy for web publishers and marketers to create custom widgets on Widgetbox… with no development resources! Below are eight great ways to turn feed-based …

The Blidget Pro keeps getting better!
Last week we introduced two new features for Blidget Pros:
1. Geographic & in-widget click tracking
2. Add/remove the Get Widget button
Today, we are excited to announce our most exciting new feature yet:

Over the last couple weeks, we’ve added several features to the Blidget Pro. The latest enhancement is by popular demand:
You can now add or remove the “Get Widget” button on your Blidget Pro.
This is an option in the Blidget creator / editor flow. If you have already created a Blidget Pro and want to hide the Get Widget button, simply edit your widget and toggle the option to “Include ‘Get Widget’ button when blidget is installed”. This a useful feature if your widget is designed to sit tightly …

When we launched the Blidget Pro last week, we also announced it to Widgetbox users in our email newsletter. And for those users, we ran a special contest.
The first twenty Blidget Pros that were made would be spotlighted on the Widgetbox Blog with a blurb written by the creator.
So without further ado… these were the first twenty Blidget Pros and their stories. The post is broken into three parts (Part I, Part II, Part III)

The latest installment of Widgetbox’s Screencast series:
“How to make YouTube Widgets with Video”
You can also access video tutorials on how to make other widgets with in-line video capabilities: YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu!