There are two times during the year where the world actually looks forward to the commercial breaks: The Super Bowl and The Academy Awards. Thanks to Hulu, the 2009 Super Bowl’s ads are all online and available for watching… and thanks to Widgetbox’s new Blidget Pro, you can now embed all of those ads directly on your blog or website using this widget:

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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Have a presence on several websites?
Have multiple RSS feeds that you’d like to merge into a single widget?
Want to include your favorite blogs in one great widget?

The Blidget Pro makes this easy by allowing the addition of tabs within a single widget…. yet another reason to Go Pro! Here’s how:

Provide a Label and Select Add Tabs

In the second part (”Customize Blidget Content”) of the Blidget Pro creator, you will notice two relevant elements:

1. Label
Entering text here automatically adds a label for your widget’s content – placing it directly above the widget’s body. This label appears in a horizontal bar which will also house other tabs. When adding a label, be descriptive but short. In this case, I have used the label “New Posts”.

2. Tabs Creator
Click the “Tabs” link to open the creator. Then click “Add New Tab”!

Choose the Tab’s Format

Four great options:

1. RSS Feed
2. YouTube Feed (with video play!)
3. Vimeo Feed (with video play too!)
4. Hulu Feed (also with video play!)

For this example, let’s use the RSS Feed as an example:

Customize the Tab & Add an RSS Feed

Three easy steps to get started:

1. Content / Source: input your feed’s URL here
2. Tab Label: input the name of the tab and remember to keep it descriptive but short!
3. Layout: choose how the tab’s content will appear – List, Slideshow or Bricks view

Tips & Tricks with Tabs

Tabs are a terrific way to add increased content, value and promotion to your widget. There are countless usages of tabs, but here is a great example of how bloggers and blog networks can use the tabs effectively. Gawker Media operates several popular blogs from Gawker to Gizmodo to Kotaku. By using tabs, we can create a single Gawker widget that highlights content from across Gawker’s network of blogs. This is a powerful widget that can be displayed across Gawker’s network to promote content from each of their blogs. And it’s a terrific way for readers and fans to consume headlines from all the Gawker properties:

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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You can now stay connected with Widgetbox via Twitter (@Widgetbox). You can follow us to stay abreast of the latest Widgetbox news and announcements.

We also turned Widgetbox’s Twitter Feed into a widget (of course!). You can grab the wide version (300×300) or a sidebar version (170×300):

You can also grab the new Widgetbox Blog Widget – another great way to stay current with Widgetbox news and updates: