Hi Everyone-
We are super excited to announce that today we are launching a new homepage that users will see when they log in to widgetbox.com!  We’ve listened to your feedback and we hope this page will help make finding and creating widgets an even simpler and more fun experience.
The new page gives you a quick snapshot of your recently installed and developed widgets, as well as a new widget playground that shows you two of your recently edited widgets.  And not to worry, you can still browse the gallery by …

We keep rolling out new features on Widgetbox… in fact, we do it every week!
Are you struggling to keep up with all ofthe new tools and improvements available from Widgetbox?
Here are three great ways to stay current with Widgetbox and make sure your widgets are leveraging our newest, most powerful features. All three options will update with each new Widgetbox announcement. So pick one (or all three!) and be sure not to miss the next exciting announcement:

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):

if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’a623d65f-9b7e-4556-95da-565325e13822′);Get the Widgetbox on Twitter – Wide Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!

if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(’d69813d0-7098-48e3-82a8-3c44dab50f9f’);Get the Widgetbox on Twitter! widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!

You can also grab the new Widgetbox Blog Widget – another …

Voting for the SXSW Interactive Festival ends this Friday, August 29th. There are a ton of great panels that have been nominated – we think we have 2 great ones. I’ve written about our submissions before, but we have some new additional panelists you might be interested in.
For “Cage Match: Battle of the Widget Business Model” we’re getting a great line-up together for a honest, much needed and no holds barred discussion about the various possible monetization schemes for widgets and how, why, and even whether they work. …

We were taking a look through our internal metrics this morning and we realized that Widgetbox widgets were seen in 214 countries yesterday.  How cool is that???  Omar – one of our rockstar developers – quickly exclaimed “That’s more countries than are at the Olympics!”  And he’s right.  There are 204 countries at the Olympics (sadly, I had to look that fact up).
What countries are those, exactly?  Well, here’s a (shhh – super secret!) chart from our internal metrics.

Sorry that United Kingdom and The Netherlands get cut off in this …